Word: weatherless
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...stratosphere varies in height from about eleven miles at the Equator to four or less at the Poles. One of its chief features is that there is practically no vertical temperature gradient. By describing it as "a calm and weatherless region," TIME meant that it lies above the turbulence, heavy clouds and precipitation which characterize the troposphere or surface layer of the atmosphere...
...balloons went up 12 miles. In Washington it was observed that a storm had penetrated that far into the stratosphere-or rather, that the storm had lifted to 12 miles the lower boundary of the stratosphere, since that region is by definition a calm, "weatherless" stratum...
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