tropopause
IPA: trˈɑpʌpɔz
noun
- The zone of transition between the troposphere and the stratosphere (approximately 13 kilometers). The tropopause normally occurs at an altitude of between 25,000 and 45,000 feet in polar and temperate zones. It occurs at 55,000 feet in the tropics.
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Examples of "tropopause" in Sentences
- It often stops in the tropopause.
- I have also decided not to merge tropopause here.
- A model for transport across the tropical tropopause.
- There is no Tropopause in the jet standard atmosphere.
- This point of equilibrium is often marked by the tropopause.
- After reaching the tropopause, the cloud tends to spread out.
- The key to this is the fact that convection stops at the tropopause.
- The boundary between the two, the tropopause, occurs at a pressure of.
- The tropopause is the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere.
- It is also possible to define the tropopause in terms of chemical composition.
- The tropopause is the “roof of weather”, the top of the weather-containing troposphere.
- Getting beyond the tropopause is a trick for us, but molecules manage to bumble their way beyond it anyway without our help.
- The upper boundary of the layer, known as the tropopause, ranges in height from 5 miles (8 km) near the poles up to 11 miles (18 km) above the equator.
- It is generally assumed that most of the water vapor found in the stratosphere passes through the tropical tropopause which is the coldest point of the troposphere, into the stratosphere.
- The tropopause is the point of thermal equilibrium between the two and seems that this point would vary in height given a change in the GWP of the atmosphere as would the lapse rate by definition.
- On Neptune, methane plays the same role as water vapor on Earth: the temperature of the socalled tropopause - a barrier of colder air separating troposphere and stratosphere - determines how much water vapor can rise into the stratosphere.
- With the lower atmosphere (the troposphere) warming and the upper atmosphere (the stratophere) cooling, another consequence is the boundary between the troposphere and stratophere, otherwise known as the tropopause, should rise as a consequence of greenhouse warming.
- I did ask a few days ago how tropospheric phenomena, like thunderstorms, can heat the upper-atmosphere through convection even though the bouyant energy required to release the latent heat as sensible heat does not make it past the tropopause which is not the upper atmosphere.
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