The phrase "underlying atmosphere" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the mood created by a particular setting, situation, or environment. For example, "The underlying atmosphere at the party was one of joy and festivity."
I want to see what the underlying atmosphere is".
And it failed to mask an underlying atmosphere of gloom that only benefits and a fair paycheck would have remedied.
The tops of the cylinders are areas of strong horizontal magnetic field, which acts as an umbrella to shield the underlying atmosphere from the solar wind.
Langer's vocal lines are determined by the drama of the libretto: her music is eclectic in style and, while her cold glittery soundscape creates the underlying atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty, there are long stretches with a much lighter, jazzy spirit, even a bit of tango.
Money is the big sticking point of course, although the phraseology around the issue is a little more elegant than that, and the language at these moments can give you a real feel for the underlying atmosphere.
Inglis writes that the effect of Harrison's "elaborate patterns" on slide guitar is to "counterbalance the underlying atmosphere of pessimism with shafts of beauty", similar to the "notes of light and dark" provided by Pete Drake's pedal steel on the song "All Things Must Pass".
For theater his models are equally varied: Synge is behind The Sea at Dauphin; Brecht and Oriental techniques figure in Drums and Colours and Malcochon; Strindberg underlies the atmosphere in Dream on Monkey Mountain.
Banfield speculates that the infrasound could have been caused by a meteor crashing into Mars' atmosphere; some sort of airflow over an underlying stable local atmosphere; or maybe even a landslide.
We studied the sensitivity of a tidally locked Earth-like atmosphere to its underlying SST by simulating the atmospheric circulation, temperature, and ozone distribution changes generated by two different SST distributions.
Bolaño is a master at creating, among the normal chaos of a holiday town, an atmosphere of underlying violence that could break out at any moment.
The retrieval algorithm was optimized to be insensitive to the overlying atmosphere, the underlying soil as well as angular effects, using radiative transfer models.
