What is the Stratosphere?
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The stratosphere is the next major atmospheric layer above the troposphere, covering the altitudes from about 8 to 30 miles high. Air temperature slowly increases with height in the stratosphere, in contrast with the troposphere where the temperature rapidly decreases with height. This unusual temperature structure is caused by absorption of sunlight by the ozone layer. All weather stops at the top of the troposphere (called the tropopause), and the stratosphere is essentially cloud-free. If you see a tall thunderstorm with an anvil cloud, it is likely that the anvil cloud is “bumping up against” the bottom of the stratosphere.
The stratosphere is a region of the Earth’s atmosphere, above the troposphere and below the mesosphere. Unlike the troposphere below it, which gets cooler as altitude increases, temperatures in the stratosphere increase as altitude does, because the top of the stratosphere is heated by direct absorption of ultraviolet radiation by our Sun. The point at which the stratosphere begins, the tropopause, is measured by where this temperature inversion starts taking place. The height of the stratosphere varies depending on what latitude we are talking about: at moderate latitudes, the stratosphere begins about 10 km (6 mi) above the surface and ends at 50 km (31 mi), at the poles, it starts at only 8 km (5 mi) altitude. This is because the ground at the poles is so cold, it doesn’t take much to produce greater temperatures, and thus the stratosphere begins earlier. The word “stratosphere” or “stratospheric” is often used as a euphemism for “really high up.” In comparison to all the divisions
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More on the Layers of the Atmosphere http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/at… The Stratosphere is the layer of the atmosphere that extends from the tropopause up to 31 miles above the Earth’s surface. This layer holds 19 percent of the atmosphere’s gases and but very little water vapor. The temperature increases with height as radiation is increasingly absorbed by oxygen molecules which leads to the formation of Ozone. The temperature rises from an average -76°F (-60°C) at tropopause to a maximum of about 5°F (-15°C) at the stratopause due to this absorption of ultraviolet radiation. The increasing temperature also makes it a calm layer with movements of the gases slow. The regions of the stratosphere and the mesosphere, along with the stratopause and mesopause, are called the middle atmosphere by scientists.
