A radiosonde climbs through calm air and records how the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere actually falls with height. What is this observed rate called?
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The name troposphere comes from a Greek word. What does that word mean?
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By volume, how much of dry air is nitrogen?
Up to about 80 km the gases of the atmosphere keep almost the same proportions, forming the homosphere. What keeps the mixture so even?
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