Stratosphere
This article is about the atmospheric layer; for the hotel in Las Vegas, see Stratosphere Las Vegas.
Stratosphere
The region of the 's atmosphere from roughly 10-50 km altitude. Temperatures fall with increasing altitude in the stratosphere, making it stable to convection.
Definition: stratosphere: The layer of the atmosphere above the troposphere and below the mesosphere where the temperature increases with height.
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stratosphere The portion of Earth's atmosphere lying above the troposphere, extending up to an altitude of 40 to 50 km.
Stratosphere. The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that lies 10km to 40km (6 to 25 miles) above the surface of the Earth. Within the layer the temperature is almost constant at -55°C (-67°F).
Stratosphere
the cold region of a planetary atmosphere above the convecting regions (the troposphere), usually without vertical motions but sometimes exhibiting strong horizontal jet streams.
Stratosphere - The region of the atmosphere of a planet immediately above the troposphere
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Stratosphere
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One of the upper layers of the atmosphere of a planet, above the weather. The earth's stratosphere ranges from about 20 to 50 km in altitude.
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Level of the Earths atmosphere from about 11-64 kilometers above sea level.
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stratosphere -- An upper portion of a planetary atmosphere, above the troposphere and below the ionosphere, characterized by relatively uniform temperature and horizontal winds.
STRATOSPHERE
The stratosphere is the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere. The stratosphere is characterized by a slight temperature increase with altitude and the absence of clouds.
-Stratosphere: The stratosphere is characterized by a slight temperature increase with altitude and the absence of clouds. The stratosphere extends between 11 and 31 miles (17 to 50 kilometers) above the earth's surface.
Titan's stratosphere extends from 50 to 200 kilometres in altitude, with temperatures steadily increasing with altitude to maximum values between 160 and 180 K.
"The Sun, the stratosphere, and the oceans are connected in ways that can influence events such as winter rainfall in North America," says NCAR scientist Gerald Meehl and lead author of the research presented this week in the journal Science.
The Stratosphere and Ozone Layer
Above the troposphere is the stratosphere, where air flow is mostly horizontal. The thin ozone layer in the upper stratosphere has a high concentration of ozone, a particularly reactive form of oxygen.
stratosphere See atmospheric shell. stratosphere radiation Any infrared radiation involved in the complex infrared exchange continually proceeding within the stratosphere.
The homosphere is about equivalent to the neutrosphere, and includes the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere; it also includes the ozonosphere and at least part of the chemosphere.
Stratopause The boundary between the mesosphere and the stratosphere, typically 50 to 55 km (31 to 34 mi; 160,000 to 180,000 ft). The pressure here is 1/1000th sea level. Stratosphere From the Latin word "stratus" meaning spreading out.
Stratosphere: From the Latin word "stratus" meaning a spreading out. The stratosphere extends from the troposphere's 7 to 17 km (23,000 - 60,000 ft) range to about 50 km (160,000 ft). Temperature increases with height.
Data returned by the Mars 6 descent module allowed a profile of tropospheric structure from the base of the stratosphere at 25 km altitude at 150 K to the surface at 230 K and atmospheric density from 82 km to 12 km.
Straddling the boundary between the stratosphere and the mesosphere is the ozone layer where, at an altitude of around 50 km, incoming solar ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by atmospheric oxygen, ozone, and nitrogen.
When the rising cumulus columns meet the tropopause, or base of the stratosphere, at about 15,000 kilometers (50,000 feet), they reach a ceiling and can no longer rise buoyantly by convection.
The atmospheric layers are - in order of distance from sea level - the troposphere (10 km), stratosphere (45 km), mesosphere (80 km), thermosphere (200 km), and exosphere (400 km).
In the 1970s, however, several studies posited that the layer of ozone in the stratosphere that shields living things from much of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation might be depleted by the large amounts of nitrogen oxides produced by nuclear ...
The sulfuric acid of the clouds also has its analogue on earth in a very thin haze in the stratosphere.
Jupiter, Saturn, and Titan also have stratospheres. On those worlds, the stratosphere owes its existence to the absorption of solar radiation by methane and dust, rather than by ozone.
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The ozone layer is a region of the stratosphere which contains most (about 90%) of the Earth's atmospheric ozone. It is about 10-25 miles (15-40 km) above the Earth's surface.
Students Send Balloons to the Stratosphere
NASA Glenn provides high school students the opportunity to launch scientific experiments into the stratosphere aboard a weather balloon.
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Don Brownlee, an astronomer at the University of Washington has pioneered the collection of this comet dust in the stratosphere.
Beyond the tropopause is the stratosphere, up to about 50 km. Temperatures increase in this region as you go outward, up to a maximum of about −3°C. Nacreous clouds live here.
Micrometeorites found on the Earth's surface are smaller than 1mm, those collected in the Stratosphere are rarely as large as 50 micro-m.
If the pulse is strong enough, it energizes ions at the border of the stratosphere and ionosphere and causes them to glow as the leading edge of the pulse expands in a spherical fashion.
The layers, troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and the exosphere, vary around the globe and in response to seasonal changes.
or two of the earth's surface, and high altitude turbulence around the tropopause, which occurs in relatively rarefied, high velocity (up to 500 kilometers per hour) air currents at the temperature inversion between the troposphere and stratosphere.
The cause of this phenomenon is not known, but it is currently suspected to be related to "Sprites": lightening flashes which are occasionally seen jumping upwards from cloud tops to the upper stratosphere.
constitute almost all of the interplanetary debris entering the Earth's atmosphere every day. They are commonly found in places where the terrestrial dust content is low, such as ocean floor sediments, Antarctic ice and in the stratosphere.
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