troposphere
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A strong polar vortex tends to encourage a strong polar jet stream in the troposphere.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Jet streams travel in the tropopause—the area between the troposphere and the stratosphere—that hovers between five and nine miles above the Earth's surface.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2024
Meanwhile, a strengthening vortex of polar air currents in the troposphere has helped strengthen summer cyclones.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 23, 2023
Life and civilization take place mostly on the planet's surface and in the troposphere, the atmosphere's very lowest layer.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023
At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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