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• troposphere — tropospheric /trop euh sfer ik, sfear , troh peuh /, adj. /trop euh sfear , troh peuh /, n. Meteorol. the lowest layer of the atmosphere, 6 mi. (10 km) high in some areas and as much as 12 mi. (20 km) high in others, within which there is a… …   Universalium

• High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder — HIRDLS: The High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder is an instrument on board the NASA Aura. It follows in the heritage of LRIR (Nimbus 6), LIMS and SAMS (Nimbus 7), ISAMS and CLAES (UARS). It was designed to observe global distribution of… …   Wikipedia

• troposphere — Synonyms and related words: Appleton layer, CAT, F layer, Heaviside Kennelly layer, Van Allen belt, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, belt, bump, ceiling, chemosphere, crosswind, empty space, favorable wind, fog, front, head… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Clear-air turbulence — For other uses, see Clear Air Turbulence (disambiguation). Clear air turbulence (CAT) is the turbulent movement of air masses in the absence of any visual cues such as clouds, and is caused when bodies of air moving at widely different speeds… …   Wikipedia

• atmosphere — atmosphereless, adj. /at meuhs fear /, n., v., atmosphered, atmosphering. n. 1. the gaseous envelope surrounding the earth; the air. 2. this medium at a given place. 3. Astron. the gaseous envelope surrounding a heavenly body. 4. Chem. any… …   Universalium

• climate — /kluy mit/, n. 1. the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years. 2. a region or… …   Universalium

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• Uranus — This article is about the planet. For other uses, see Uranus (disambiguation). Uranus   …   Wikipedia

• List of cloud types — Clouds are formed in Earth s atmosphere when water evaporates into vapor from oceans, lakes, and ponds or by evapotranspiration over moist areas of Earth s land surface. The vapor rises up into colder areas of the atmosphere due to convective,… …   Wikipedia

• Cloud — For other uses, see Cloud (disambiguation). Cumulus cloudscape over Swifts Creek, Australia A cloud …   Wikipedia