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31SSU — Stratospheric Sounding Unit Contributor: CASI …
32STRAT — Stratospheric Tracers of Atmospheric Transport Contributor: CASI …
33SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol and Cas Experiment (Anglais. En franc. = Étude des aérosols et des gas de la stratosphère). Satellite américain, lancé en 1979 …
34Ozone depletion — Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded (September 2006) Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth s… …
35Antarctica — /ant ahrk ti keuh, ahr ti /, n. the continent surrounding the South Pole: almost entirely covered by an ice sheet. ab. 5,000,000 sq. mi. (12,950,000 sq. km). Also called Antarctic Continent. * * * Antarctica Introduction Antarctica Background:… …
36environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …
37Perlan Project — The Perlan Project is a current research project to fly a sailplane to an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). Infobox Cloud name = Polar Stratospheric Cloud Formed by standing mountain wave in Scandinavia image location = Polar… …
38Satellite temperature measurements — have been obtained from the troposphere since 1978. By comparison, the usable balloon (radiosonde) record begins in 1958.Satellites do not measure temperature as such. They measure radiances in various wavelength bands, which must then be… …
39Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit — The Advanced microwave sounding unit (AMSU) is a multi channel microwave radiometer installed on meteorological satellites. The instrument examines several bands of microwave radiation from the atmosphere to perform atmospheric sounding of… …
40fallout — /fawl owt /, n. 1. the settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions, eruptions, forest fires, etc., esp. such settling from nuclear explosions (radioactive fallout). Cf. rainout. 2. the… …
