troposphere

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They used self-organizing maps, a machine learning method, to classify patterns of daily weather in the troposphere, the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere where most weather occurs.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

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

They noted that their study was the first to officially discover airborne microplastics in cloud water both in the atmospheric boundary layer and in the free troposphere.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 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