Definition of troposphere
: the lowest densest part of the earth's atmosphere in which most weather changes occur and temperature generally decreases rapidly with altitude and which extends from the earth's surface to the bottom of the stratosphere at about 7 miles (11 kilometers) high
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Correcting these inputs has been shown to improve the match with surface temperatures, and the same would be true for the upper troposphere tracked by the satellite measurements.
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Once formed, a tropical cyclone is maintained by the extraction of heat energy from the ocean at high temperature and heat export at the low temperatures of the upper troposphere.
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These wispy clouds are made up of ice crystals that form in the upper troposphere.
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The layer closest to Earth, the troposphere, is where weather occurs.
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