stratosphere
/ˈstratəˌsfɪə/
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American sound/ˈstratəˌsfɪə/
ˈstratəˌsfɪə
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ˈstratə - ˌsfɪə -> stratosphere
Myanmar meaning
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stratosphere /'strætǝsfÇǝ(r)/ n [sing]
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- ‘Only the stratosphere is dry enough and with a long enough residence time (a few years) for the small anthropogenic inputs to be important.’
- ‘A small proportion of this is Ozone, which is found in the stratosphere in a layer.’
- ‘So while we are minding our business down here on the earth's surface, up in the stratosphere, ozone is continually being created and destroyed.’
- ‘Just above the stratosphere lies the mesosphere.’
- ‘The current winter and early spring have been extremely cold in the Arctic stratosphere, leading to the potential for substantial ozone depletion there.’
- ‘Ozone is commonly thought of in terms of the ozone layer high in the stratosphere.’
- ‘Nacreous and Noctilucent clouds form not in the part of the atmosphere in which we live, but much higher up, in the stratosphere and mesosphere.’
- ‘Another important climate forcing, volcanic aerosols, can also give a similar opposing trend between the stratosphere and troposphere.’
- ‘Like nacreous clouds, these usually form slightly above the troposphere, in the dry and ice-free stratosphere.’
- ‘The ozone layer is a thin layer of gas in the stratosphere which effectively screens out most of the harmful UV radiation in sunlight.’
- ‘The authors demonstrate that the presence of stronger westerly jets in the stratosphere causes tropospheric weather systems to track further toward the pole.’
- ‘It has been argued that not taking the cooling in the stratosphere properly into account can be one explanation for the trend differences.’
- ‘Like the Earth's atmosphere, Titan's atmosphere can be separated into the troposphere, stratosphere, and upper atmosphere.’
- ‘Various methods were employed to collect data from the ocean's surface through the lower stratosphere.’
- ‘The resulting chlorine atoms that are generated catalyze the depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere.’
- ‘Should further cooling of the Arctic stratosphere occur, increasing ozone losses can be expected for the next couple of decades.’
- ‘The stratosphere extends above the troposphere to about 150, 000 feet and is the region where the ozone layer is formed.’
- ‘That's consistent with the fingerprint of ozone depletion plus greenhouse gases, which would cool the stratosphere and warm the surface.’
- ‘CFC molecules react with and destroy ozone in the Earth's stratosphere.’
- ‘It eventually reaches the stratosphere, where it causes a thinning of the ozone layer.’
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