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And while I was willing to grant the bizarre upper-atmosphere creatures featured in the previous books, filling space with the equivalent of plankton and whales ... sorry, can't buy it.
What I've Just Read: Starclimber ewillett 2008
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Children were dying of the upper-atmosphere smog, and the and ships were forbidden to leave because of the heavy storms of acid mist.
365 tomorrows » B. York : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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What about the destruction of warming, upper-atmosphere ozone by cosmic rays?
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Children were dying of the upper-atmosphere smog, and the and ships were forbidden to leave because of the heavy storms of acid mist.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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The staggering amount if volcanic activity is blamed for the planets cloud cover, lack of liquid water, and its high surface temperature, a global average of 900 degrees Fahrenheit; temperatures so hot that the sulfuric acid rain that is produced in the upper-atmosphere evaporates before it can hit the ground.
Exploring Volcanism in our Solar System: A complete survey of all geologically active bodies 2007
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The Mars Twins were an unusual turgid red as their upper-atmosphere hurricanes swirled and battled along thousand kilometre fronts, obliterating the dark shadows which occasionally hinted at surface features.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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I did ask a few days ago how tropospheric phenomena, like thunderstorms, can heat the upper-atmosphere through convection even though the bouyant energy required to release the latent heat as sensible heat does not make it past the tropopause which is not the upper atmosphere.
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"The mid- and upper-atmosphere will dry out today, and there is only a slight chance for late afternoon thunderstorms associated with the west coast sea breeze," according to the forecast provided by the 45th Weather Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base.
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Model soundings are showing freezing temperatures aloft down to the 925 MB level (approximately 2,640 feet) so conditions in the upper-atmosphere will be cold enough to support snowfall.
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Even more important temperatures in the upper-atmosphere, where clouds form have to be quite cold, ranging from 5 degrees or lower for one kind of snow and -4 to -13 degrees for another type of snow.
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