Examples of troposphere in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In contrast, temperatures in Neptune’s troposphere — the even-colder weather layer — showed no significant variability while reaching as low as minus 370 F (minus 223 C). — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2022 In this pattern, cold air high in the troposphere, on the west side of the trough, converges and sinks. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022 Plumes happily rise into the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere and the bit that contains most of the world’s weather. — Robin Andrews, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022 Thunderstorms flatten out at the tropopause, or top of the troposphere, the lowest level of Earth’s atmosphere, since a lid of warm air suppresses continued upward development. — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2022 In a world that warmed 6°C by 2100—an increase that matches only the most dire, and unlikely, projections of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report—the troposphere would grow 1.5 kilometers in height. — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 19 Aug. 2021 Manabe also found that increasing the CO₂ in the atmosphere would increase the temperature of the troposphere, the layer of air closest to Earth’s surface, while lowering the temperature of the stratosphere, the next layer above it. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2021 This results in much more active weather in the troposphere and more sluggish weather in the stratosphere. — Jon Reisner, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021 As a consequence, smoke in the stratosphere can last for months to years while that in the troposphere rains out in a week. — Jon Reisner, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for troposphere

borrowed from French troposphère, from tropo- tropo- (in sense "change," as the troposphere is where weather changes take place) + -sphère -sphere

Note: The term was introduced, along with stratosphère stratosphere, by the French meteorologist Léon Tesserenc de Bort (1855-1913). Tesserenc de Bort apparently first used them in a paper read to a German meteorological society in Hamburg on September 30, 1908 ("La division de l'atmosphère en troposphère et stratosphère d'après les résultats de l'exploration de la haute atmosphère"). The paper was not subsequently published but is briefly summarized by C. Kassner in "Bericht über die elfte allgemeine Versammlung und Feier des 25-jährigen Bestehens der Deutschen Meteorologischen Gesellschaft zu Hamburg am 28. bis 30. September 1908," Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Band 26, Heft 1 (Januar, 1909), p. 6.

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