Preferred Label : stratosphere;
IUPAC definition : The atmospheric shell lying just above the troposphere which is characterized by an
increasing temperature with altitude. The stratosphere begins at the tropopause (about
10-15 km height) and extends to a height of about 50 km, where the lapse rate changes
sign at the stratopause and the beginning of the mesosphere.;
Origin ID : S06043;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
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The atmospheric shell lying just above the troposphere which is characterized by an
increasing temperature with altitude. The stratosphere begins at the tropopause (about
10-15 km height) and extends to a height of about 50 km, where the lapse rate changes
sign at the stratopause and the beginning of the mesosphere.
