What is "stratosphere"

Usage examples of "stratosphere".

By reacting with free oxygen atoms in the stratosphere, the intrusive methane reduced the quantity available for ozone formation.

Moreover, methane reactions in the stratosphere yielded water vapor that further depleted the ozone.

You may be Miss Blank, subsisting in a bed-sitting-room without very much to live for or many people to care whether you live or not, but for a pound or two a year you can battle for lost causes, sail beyond Ultima Thule, ascend into the stratosphere, love and be courted, adorn a glittering throng with your glamorous presence, tumble over a corpse on the mat, probe the mystery of the Poisoned Penwiper, and never have a dull moment.

When you see the top of a storm cloud flattening out into the classic anvil shape, you are looking at the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere.

You shall be der virst liffing greature to go oudt beyond der stratosphere of der earth, out into space.

Considering that the air of Oblivia was chockablock with real live vultures, from fencepost level to the stratosphere, I could see little point in their flourishing a dead and stuffed one.

Further within this energy envelope are layers of tenuous matter called the atmospheric strata: exosphere, ionosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere.

Its microbiotic crew long reduced to nanometric motes, its strange, organic fabric tenuous, the minuscule remaining mass of the C-and-C produced little flash as all but its intricate and indestructible prime mover vaporized in the lower stratosphere.

Any postatomic winter would have had to encompass virtually the entire planet, since the masses of dust thrown into the stratosphere would increase the albedo of the whole surface.

A most intricate device would be placed atop a sounding rocket, complete with a score of telemetric devices, and it would soar the first five miles through the visible cloud layer, through the stratosphere and mesosphere, reporting perfectly on conditions there, but when it entered the ionosphere, where the data became critical, some small component of the instrument system, damaged by the physical stress of launch, would cease functioning and the shot would be scrubbed.

And the ash was burned life, trees and mammals and divergent species of dinosaurs from America and China and Australia and Antarctica, burned to cinders by the global firestorms and then burned again in the pulse of superheat, now mingled together in the choked stratosphere.

If opinion on the web was bad, and the enclaves got nervous, the best contractors and subcontractors would turn the job down in favor of safer work, or would drive their prices up into the stratosphere.

I am writing, the last days of the planet earth, telecasting was done from planes circling the stratosphere.

Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.

The medley of icons from the Cambrian, from ancient Africa, shells and brontosaurus brains, glaciers and the stratosphere dissolve on her screen into Gaia's personal heartthrob, the one image I know to be her own.