Questions tagged [troposphere]

The troposphere is the lowest part of Earth's atmosphere and place of our daily weather phenomenons. When asking questions specifically about the troposphere, use this tag and also include the [atmosphere] tag and [meteorology] tag.

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Which atmosphere model(s) put the upper end of the tropopause isothermal layer at 25 km and why?

The International and U.S. Standard atmospheres have a layer between 11 km (36,000 ft) and 20 km (66,000 ft) where the temperature is constant with altitude. This includes older versions of the U.S. ...
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Didn't they get the atmospheric layers wrong in this image and which layers are those actually?

In the following image (from this article) they claim the orange part is the troposphere, the yellow/almost white part is the stratosphere and the light blue part obviously the mesosphere while those ...
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How long to breathe (the equivalent) of all of the atmosphere?

I have done some rough calculations of how long it might take humanity: approx 80,000 years (that's taking Earth's population as 7.5 billion, 11,000 litres a day of breathing per person, the weight of ...
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Why does CO2 cause heating in troposphere but cooling mesosphere?

Why does CO2 cause heating in troposphere but cooling mesosphere? Can anyone explain this?
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