troposphere

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Jet streams travel in the tropopause—the area between the troposphere and the stratosphere—that hovers between five and nine miles above the Earth's surface.

From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024

Life and civilization take place mostly on the planet's surface and in the troposphere, the atmosphere's very lowest layer.

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023

They noted that their study was the first to officially discover airborne microplastics in cloud water both in the atmospheric boundary layer and in the free troposphere.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023

Those warm waters fuel convection, with hot, moisture-laden air rising and fueling rain until it hits the tropopause, where the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere, meets the stratosphere.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2023

At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer