Sentence examples for layer of atmosphere from inspiring English sources

Under a startlingly thin layer of atmosphere, vast expanses of desert ceded to forests that gave way to the oceans that make up 70 percent of Earth's surface.

He has a brief, childish cartoon to explain that the thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds the Earth - like the coat of varnish on a wooden globe - is being thickened by vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Hence the light of the setting Sun, which passes through a thick layer of atmosphere, has much more red than yellow or blue light, while light scattered from the sky contains much more blue than yellow or red light.

Ozone is produced naturally in the stratosphere, the layer of atmosphere above the air we breathe (the troposphere, the upper boundary of which lies about six miles above sea level), and protects people from ultraviolet sunlight.

The role of the tropopause--the layer of atmosphere that separates the troposphere from the stratosphere--in global air-circulation patterns is not well understood.

Animal Crossing Calculator features the full functionality of a traditional calculator, including a Memory key and the ability to display up to 13 digits, adding a layer of atmosphere unique to Animal Crossing.

Thus: rain comes from snow that melts as it falls through lower, warmer layers of atmosphere.

Another important factor, wind is enabling evaporation in the lower layers of atmosphere close the ground level and works like the conveyor belt of moisture.

Or, as they will report later this week at the Extreme Solar Systems II conference in Jackson Lake, Wyoming, it's possible that bright spots represent brief glimpses of deep, hot layers of atmosphere through dark clouds composed of silicate and metallic dust grains.

They used a simplified form of atmospheric dynamics based on solving the barotropic vorticity equation over a single layer of the atmosphere, by computing the geopotential height of the atmosphere's 500 mb pressure surface.

In the troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere, where most weather occurs), air temperatures normally decrease as altitude increases; the faster the rate of decrease, the more unstable the atmosphere.