The accuracy with which the atmospheric measurements are calibrated can influence the inferred temperature of the atmosphere (called the warm-target bias).
The principal mode of the atmospheric circulation of Venus is a zonal westward rotation of the entire atmosphere called the super-rotation (Schubert, 1983).
But Lévy, thrilled by the revolutionary atmosphere, called Sarkozy on his satellite phone to suggest that he receive the N.T.C. chiefs in Paris.
Carter, who was elected in a post-Watergate atmosphere, called himself a moderate Democrat; Clinton, who was running against a weakened George H. W. Bush and an erratic third-party candidate, Ross Perot, defined himself as a New Democrat.
In the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere, called the homosphere (100 km [about 65 miles]), turbulence causes a continuous mixing of the atmospheric constituents, whereas in the heterosphere, above 100 km, the various constituents tend to separate out.
This region of Earth's atmosphere, called the magnetosphere, is compressed by the solar wind on the daylight side of the planet and stretched outward in a long tail on the night side.
Just as there is a limit to the speed of sound waves in Earth's atmosphere, called "mach 1," there seemed to be a limit on the speed of field lines during the snapback, limiting the speed of reconnection.
Specifically, he proposes tying carbon penalties to the temperature of the lowest layer of the atmosphere (called the troposphere, which extends from the surface of the earth to a height of about 10 miles).
The sun's atmosphere, called the corona, is hundreds of times hotter than its surface, and astronomers have been trying to figure out why for more than 50 years.
Then he asked ruefully, as if he weren't altogether sure that the question was rhetorical, "But who could have predicted Iran?" At Chrysler headquarters, in Highland Park, north of Detroit, the atmosphere called to mind a man looking for a minute in which to have a nervous breakdown.
