Talk:Tropopause

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Contents 1 Mountains 2 Anvil Cloud 3 Merge with with troposphere 4 the thickness

[edit] Mountains

Is there any mountain high enough to peak above a part of the troposphere thin enough to be peaked by the mountain at hand? This data could do great to the article, in addition, if more than one mountain could do so, could it do so with the stratosphere too? I doubt so since the Everest is like almost 9 km tall but even then, I dunno really... Herle King 07:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anvil Cloud

When you see a cloud (usually a thundercloud) form a sort of anvil shape at the top of the cloud, is this because it's hitting the stratosphere/tropopause? ~Hobo

[edit] Merge with with troposphere

I am currently reworking the troposphere article and I feel that this article would be better as a section of that one. I will merge the contents from here. The draft is at: User:NHSavage/sandbox. Comments please.--NHSavage 08:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I have now changed my mind. It doesn't belong there and we can put a lot more in here.--NHSavage 10:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure describing that there are two "types" of tropopause's is correct. It might be better to describe the tropopause as being a disjointed boundary. It's height being a function of near surface temperature. Warm air "pushes" the tropopause to higher levels as the air expands and cold air drops the tropopause as the air is contracted (of course to understand this completely the tropopause needs to be explained as having atmosphereic stability). Therefore, with large surface temperature variations, there will be large height variations. In some cases as much as 20,000 ft height change in 500 nm (typically around polar front). There are three principle tropopause height changes, each associated with significant temperature changes from atmosphereic cells of the Hadley Cell, Ferrel cell and Polar cell. --Pugzi 08:34, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] the thickness

why does the thickness of the troposphere get thinner as the latitude increases? Maybe you can add the explanation to it User:Tikai 08:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)