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| troposphere,stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere,and exosphere |
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| water is when it changes from a solid, to a liquid and then into a gas |
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| the stage at which no more of a substance can be absorbed into a vapor or disadvantage |
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| the amount of water vapor present in air expressed as a percentage of the amount needed |
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| an instrument for measuring the humidity of the air or gas |
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| the atmospheric temperature(varying according to pressure and humidity) below which water droplets begin to condense and dew can form |
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| the rate at which atmospheric temperature decreases with increasing altitude in conditions of thermal equilibrium. |
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| a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere. |
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| a body of horizontally uniform temperature, humidity,and pressure. |
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| the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air. |
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| an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude. |
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| an imaginary line or a line on a map or chart connecting or marking places of equal barometric pressure. |
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| a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure. |
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| a weather system with high atmospheric pressure at its center around which air slowly circulates in a clockwise direction. |
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| the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system. |
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| the boundary of an advancing mass of warm air in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system. |
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| a pair of air masses neither of which is strong enough to replace the other. |
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| a composite front produced by occlusion. |
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| an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial pacific region and beyond every few years. |
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| a cooling of the water in the equatorial pacific that occurs at irregular intervals and is associated with widespread changes. |
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| an increase in frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move towards each other. |
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| a layer in the earth's stratosphere at an altitude of about 6.2 miles containing a high concentration of ozone. |
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| the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere. |
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| a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earths atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect. |
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