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troposphere: From the Greek word "tropos" meaning to turn or mix. The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere starting at the surface going up to between 7 km at the poles and 17 km at the equator with some variation due to weather factors. The troposphere has a great deal of vertical mixing due to solar heating at the surface. This heating warms air masses, which then rise to release latent heat as sensible heat that further buoys the air mass. This process continues until all water vapor is removed. In the troposphere, on average, temperature decreases with height due to expansive cooling.

stratosphere: from that 7–17 km range to about 50 km, temperature increasing with height.

mesosphere: from about 50 km to the range of 80 km to 85 km, temperature decreasing with height.

thermosphere: from 80–85 km to 640+ km, temperature increasing with height.

The boundaries between these regions are named the tropopause, stratopause, and mesopause.

Atmospheric regions are also named in other ways:

ionosphere – the region containing ions: approximately the mesosphere and thermosphere up to 550 km.

exosphere – above the ionosphere, where the atmosphere thins out into space. This is the last major atmosphere. (“Exo” means “outside” in Greek.)

magnetosphere – the region where the Earth's magnetic field interacts with the solar wind from the Sun. It extends for tens of thousands of kilometers, with a long tail away from the Sun.

ozone layer – or ozonosphere, approximately 10 - 50 km, where stratospheric ozone is found. Note that even within this region, ozone is a minor constituent by volume.

upper atmosphere – the region of the atmosphere above the mesopause.

Van Allen radiation belts – regions where particles from the Sun become concentrated.

2006-06-17 10:29:11 · answer #1 · answered by Geo06 5 · 1 0

actually it would be hard to put ALL the names in thjis block because it is made of like 7000 they call them stellar spheres.The atlas contains about 7600 stellar atmosphere models for a wide
range of metallicities, effective temperatures and gravities. These new
LTE models have improved opacities and are computed with a finer
wavelength and temperature resolution than the previous Buser-Kurucz
atlas installed in the CDBS (crgridbk). The microturbulent velocity is
2 km s^{-1}.

2006-06-17 15:04:17 · answer #2 · answered by AF_guy_85 1 · 0 0

troposphere 0 - 15 KM
contains gases like nitrogen, oxygen, carbon di oxide etc

stratosphere 15 - 60 KM
In this layer the first 15 KM is called the ozone layer

ionosphere
contains charged ions

and then finally exosphere which is the outer space

2006-06-17 14:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by R.Nagarajan 2 · 0 0

troposhere and stratosphere thoses are the only ones i know there might be more

2006-06-17 14:45:42 · answer #4 · answered by Susan D 2 · 0 0

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