| Caption: |
Earth's atmosphere has a structure based on changes in air temperature from the surface upward. The curving yellow line shows the average change in air temperature with height. Weather develops in the lowest layer, the troposphere. (After Lutgens, F. K., and Tarbuck, E. J. 2007. The atmosphere: An introduction to meteorology, 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall) |
| Keywords: |
atmosphere, troposphere, tropopause, stratosphere, stratopause, mesosphere, mesopause, thermosphere, ionosphere, auroras |
