The phrase "atmospheric layers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the different strata of the atmosphere, such as in scientific or educational contexts.
Example: "The Earth's atmospheric layers include the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere."
Alternatives: "layers of the atmosphere" or "strata of the atmosphere".
In order to understand long-term changes in the Earth's atmosphere, it is essential to discuss the various atmospheric layers as a coupled system and not to regard them as separate layers.
Total radiance at the top of atmosphere is computed by the sum of components emergent from all atmospheric layers and the background surface.
The satellites are positioned above the atmosphere that they're trying to measure, and have to peer through many different atmospheric layers.
In addition to the temperature and density gradients, the chemical composition of the atmospheric layers as well as the absorptivity, or opacity, of the material must be known.
The common oceanographic terms Ekman layer, denoting certain oceanic or atmospheric layers occurring at various interfaces; Ekman spiral, used in connection with vertical oceanic velocity; and Ekman transport, denoting wind-driven currents, derive from his research.
Unlike signals in the longer-wavelength HF band, for which layers in the atmosphere appear as relatively smooth reflective surfaces, signals in the shorter-wavelength UHF band reflect off small irregularities in the atmospheric layers as if these irregularities were randomly oriented granular reflectors.
In the troposphere, the atmospheric layer that goes from the ground up to about six miles, ozone produced by combustion is a major pollutant in smog.
Because the satellites are looking down through the whole atmosphere, measuring the temperature of the troposphere requires subtracting the effects of the stratosphere the atmospheric layer above it.
Some associated ozone with a hole in the atmospheric layer, which might result in a nasty sunburn, not a particle that is a major component of smog, which might cause coughing or shortness of breath.
Jupiter is a gaseous planet, with a radius of forty-four thousand miles — big enough to contain all the other planets and moons of the solar system — and Galileo will have hardly penetrated its outermost atmospheric layer.
According to the Stefan-Boltzmann law, the total amount of long-wave energy emitted is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature of the emitting material (e.g., the ground surface or the atmospheric layer).
