STRATOPAUSE The boundary zone or transition layer between the stratosphere and the mesosphere. Characterized by a decrease in temperature with increasing altitude.
Stratopause The boundary between the stratosphere and the mesosphere.
Stratopause Transition zone between the stratosphere and the mesosphere.
The stratosphere and stratopause stretch above the troposphere to a height of 50 km.
(c) The mesosphere, in which there is once again more convection, extending from the stratopause to a height of about 86-100 km at the mesopause. In this region, the temperatures again fall as low as -93°C as you increase in altitude.
This top is called the stratopause, above which temperature again decreases with height.
The region of the earth's atmosphere between the stratopause at the top of stratosphere (at an altitude of approximately 50 km) and mesopause, just below the thermosphere (70 to 80 km altitude) where the temperature decreases rapidly with height.
The atmospheric shell between about 20 km and about 70 to 80 km, extending from the top of the stratosphere (the stratopause) to the upper temperature minimum that defines the mesopause (the base of the thermosphere).
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Stratosphere That portion of the homosphere that ranges from 20 to 50 km (12.5 to 30 mi) above the Earth's surface, with temperatures ranging from -70 degrees (F) at the tropopause to 32 degrees (F) at the stratopause.
such substances due to both the actions of mankind (e.g. CFC's) and those of natural processes (e.g. volcanic ash).
As with the troposphere, the stratosphere varies in thickness, but as an average figure the top of this layer, the stratopause, ...
 See also: Surface, Temperature, High, Altitude, Horizon
  
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