Troposphere

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The lower part of the earth's atmosphere extending upwards from the earth's surface, in which temperature decreases with height except in local layers of temperature inversion.

Reference: B.S.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)