tropospheric
- a word derived from troposphere.
Example Sentences
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According to Wehner, anthropogenic global warming has significantly increased surface ocean and tropospheric air temperatures in regions where hurricanes, tropical cyclones, and typhoons form and propagate, providing additional heat energy for storm intensification.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
Ground-level, or tropospheric, ozone is created when auto exhaust and emissions from oil and gas production get baked by the sun.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2021
Both of these Northern Hemisphere polar vortexes were especially strong this winter, but we’re mainly concerned with the tropospheric polar vortex here, the one that’s in the layer closest to the surface of the Earth.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2020
NOx dissipates faster than carbon dioxide but helps create tropospheric ozone, a more potent greenhouse gas.
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2015
It is hard to reconcile the sudden difference in NH and SH sea-surface temperatures with the effects of tropospheric pollution in the NH, since the pollution presumably ramped up over a longer timeframe.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2010
