Rebecca OwenEos, TRANSACTIONS, AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
What weather occurs in the stratosphere? What happens in the troposphere? What is located immediately above the stratosphere? What is the difference between the troposphere and the stratosphere? Does the temperature rise or drop in the stratosphere? What important layer exists within the stratosphere?
What are the characteristics of the mesosphere? What do Foehn winds cause? What happens in the troposphere? What are clastic sedimentary rocks made of? What are cinder cone volcanoes made of? What are the southern lights in Antarctica?
In a tornado, the same sort of thing happens as with our bathtub example, except with air instead of water. Low-pressure centers — which draw in cooler, high-pressure air from the surrounding area — dictate a great deal of the Earth's wind patterns. This airflow pushes the low-pressur...
The reason these changes keep happening is that the term “polar vortex” actually describes two types of cold weather events. One happens in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere, while another happens higher up in the stratosphere. Basically, it's a frigid cyclone. ...
What happens if you go inside a tornado? People and objects can get picked up before being dropped. Because this happens from a height, some manage to survive, but others aren't so lucky. Is the inside of a tornado calm? Evidence suggests that tornadoes mostly have calm, clear centers th...
What happens in the troposphere? What would happen if the Hoover Dam broke? What caused the Holocene extinction? What caused the Kilauea volcano to erupt? What happened after the ice age ended? What happened to the Himalayas during the Cenozoic era? What would have happened if the Chicxulub ...
- The troposphere is the layer closest to the Earth's surface, extending up to an average height of 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) at the equator and 8 kilometers (5 miles) at the poles. Most of Earth's weather happens here, and the temperature decreases with altitude. Approximately 75% of...
The term "windshear," meanwhile, is used to describe a "sudden change" in wind velocity. This immediate change in wind speed or wind direction happens over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere, and can occur at both high and low altitude,according to the Federal Aviation Administration...
What happens at the boundary between the troposphere and the next atmospheric layer? The tropopause, marking this boundary, features a temperature inversion or stabilization, limiting weather to the troposphere. 3 How do scientists define the upper limit of the exosphere? The upper limit of the ex...