Over time, they noticed that the atmosphere had distinct layers. By the early 1900s, scientists had identified major layers of the atmosphere based on how the temperature changed at different ...

The layers of the atmosphere shown to scale and a discussion of what happens at each layer. The layers in order from the ground up: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and the ...

Airborne in situ and Doppler and Raman lidar data are collected in various boundary layers, e.g. over complex terrain, to reveal cloud or mountain-scale circulations and the associated temperature and ...