单词 | troposphere |
释义 | tropospheren. 1. Meteorology. The lowest region of the atmosphere (below the stratosphere), marked by convection and a general decrease of temperature with increasing height. Cf. tropopause n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > [noun] > specific regions of upper air1586 upper atmosphere1586 stratosphere1909 troposphere1909 ionosphere1926 ozone layer1927 ozonosphere1933 spray region1949 mesosphere1950 thermosphere1950 turbosphere1951 magnetosphere1959 Van Allen1959 ozone shield1965 plasmasphere1966 ozone1975 1909 Monthly Weather Rev. 1908 (U.S.) 36 371/1 (heading) Director Teisserenc de Bort, of Paris: The division of the atmosphere into troposphere and stratosphere, as based on the results of the exploration of the upper air. 1922 Nature 2 Feb. 141/1 In the lower layer, called the troposphere, the atmospheric gases are kept well mixed up by winds and convection. 1982 New Scientist 21 Jan. 151/1 Dust in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere, is soon washed out by rain. 2006 G. Pretor-Pinney Cloudspotter's Guide vii. 173 The movement of the falling crystals, as they are whipped by the winds high in the troposphere, is what gives Cirrus their distinctive, flossy formations. 2. Oceanography. The upper layer of the ocean in which the water temperature rapidly decreases as depth increases. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > specific layers laminarian zone1851 stratosphere1932 troposphere1932 scattering layer1942 sound channel1946 psychrosphere1956 thermosphere1956 Ekman layer1957 thermo-halocline1964 nepheloid layer1965 1932 Bull. Nat. Res. Council (U.S.) No. 85 483 The troposphere is marked by a considerable and rather rapid fall in temperature. 1957 Science 22 Nov. 1055/1 They [sc. diatoms] sink through the so-called ‘oceanic troposphere’ and reach the abyssal zone. 1993 B. Rudels in D. B. Stone & S. K. Runcorn Flow & Creep in Solar Syst. 354 The interactions between the troposphere and the stratosphere occur in most parts of the ocean by a slow upwelling of deep water through the oceanic thermocline into the troposphere. 2009 C. R. Nichols & R. G. Williams Encycl. Marine Sci. (Electronic ed.) at Atlantic Ocean The central water masses are relatively warm and constitute the oceanic ‘troposphere’, in analogy with the atmosphere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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