tropopause

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• The upper boundary of the troposphere — known as the tropopause — naturally rises and falls with the seasons.

  Climate change is upping the height of Earth’s lower atmosphere | Freda Kreier | January 3, 2022 | Science News For Students

• Liu is part of a team that found this tropopause has risen an average of about 200 meters between 1980 and 2020.

  Climate change is upping the height of Earth’s lower atmosphere | Freda Kreier | January 3, 2022 | Science News For Students

• Ascending air within the plume rose so rapidly that it recoiled upon hitting the tropopause, or the lower edge of the stratosphere, above which it’s extremely difficult for surface parcels of air to rise.

  Satellites capture dozens of explosive eruptions from La Soufrière volcano on St. Vincent island | Matthew Cappucci | April 12, 2021 | Washington Post

• The boundary between the troposphere and the next layer up is known as the tropopause.

  Explainer: Our atmosphere — layer by layer | Beth Geiger | December 1, 2020 | Science News For Students