How to Use troposphere in a Sentence

troposphere

noun
  • These wispy clouds are made up of ice crystals that form in the upper troposphere.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
  • In this pattern, cold air high in the troposphere, on the west side of the trough, converges and sinks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The troposphere is made up of four great rings of circulating air.
    — Carl Zimmer, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Instead, these flashes stayed in the clouds of the first layer, the troposphere.
    — Popular Science, 26 Jan. 2021
  • As a consequence, smoke in the stratosphere can last for months to years while that in the troposphere rains out in a week.
    — Jon Reisner, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
  • This layer of air, the lowest region of the troposphere, is filled with swirling pockets of warm air.
    — Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
  • The troposphere is noisy and chaotic, while the stratosphere above it is calmer and more stratified.
    — Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The balloons also reach the lower part of the stratosphere, the layer above the troposphere.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Global warming refers to the rapid warming of the troposphere globally in time.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The short answer is the location of the jet stream or storm track — a belt of strong winds high in the troposphere where airliners fly.
    — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
  • This results in much more active weather in the troposphere and more sluggish weather in the stratosphere.
    — Jon Reisner, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Bigger events, like this one, translate downward to the troposphere, where weather happens.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
  • As the fires rapidly grew, smoke billowed into the middle and upper layers of the troposphere, three to five miles above the ground.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The layer closest to Earth, the troposphere, is where weather occurs.
    — Laura Parker, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
  • Smoke from raging fires could reach the troposphere and, over weeks, forms a blanket that blocks sunlight and drops the temperature.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Take a one-meter-by-one-meter square air column, from the ground to the top of the troposphere, and condense all the water vapor.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
  • Some species were found year round, and some of these core group were found in the upper troposphere above the Caribbean Sea as well.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Stratospheric eruptions can also have a greater impact on climate than those that stay lower down in the troposphere.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 27 June 2019
  • The troposphere is the first layer above the Earth that extends 5 to 9 miles above the Earth's surface.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 9 June 2023
  • The troposphere, which extends up about 6 miles from the Earth's surface, is the first layer of the atmosphere.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Our atmosphere consists of many layers of moving air; the troposphere is where our weather happens and above it is the stratosphere.
    — Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • With all of these explosions, 330 billion pounds of soot gets lofted into the troposphere.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 23 June 2024
  • The troposphere is where weather happens, and where eye-searing clouds of smoke and soot circulate even from moderately sized fires.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
  • And sometimes, the overshoot can thrust from the lower level of the atmosphere, the troposphere, right on up into the stratosphere above.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The wind that stirs microbes up from land and sea is almost entirely confined to the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
    — Carl Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Plumes happily rise into the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere and the bit that contains most of the world’s weather.
    — Robin Andrews, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
  • That wobbling can allow Arctic air from the troposphere — or contained within the polar jet stream — to move elsewhere.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Freep.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.
    — Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • There are several layers within the atmosphere; the layer above the troposphere is the stratosphere.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025
  • One record covers the lower troposphere—the first 10 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 19 July 2018

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