The instruments on OCO would have examined the lower atmosphere, and in finer detail.
Researchers have found that the accumulation of ozone-consuming compounds in the lower atmosphere is either declining or slowing down.
Russian emergency officials said the meteor was destroyed after it partially burned in the lower atmosphere over the Ural district.
They will analyse the planet's lower atmosphere, looking for telltale gases associated with volcanic activity, and for related temperature changes.
But fewer ozone-eaters in the lower atmosphere mean that the ozone layer should eventually heal itself, perhaps by 2050 or so.
Ozone in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) is regarded as a serious pollutant that can cause respiratory problems, and even damage masonry and agricultural crops.
The "Tunguska Event" that flattened over 800 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908 was caused by a stony asteroid only 50 meters in diameter exploding in the lower atmosphere.
The publication was commissoned in conjunction with Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).
Heavy, gritty particles seem to be sitting at around 8, 000ft (2440m) , while lower down in the atmosphere there are sulphurous chemicals and finer dust particles.
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For instance, clouds rising in the troposphere, the lower level of the atmosphere where air mixes freely, will bump up against the boundary of the much more stable stratosphere, forming ripples in the process.
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According to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme, reducing black carbon and ozone in the lower part of the atmosphere, especially in the Arctic countries of America, Canada, Russia and Scandinavia, could cut warming in the Arctic by two-thirds over the next three decades.
The new equipment would lower the temperature of the atmosphere in the crematorium from 1, 400 degrees to around 300 degrees by piping in cold water.
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It also has a lower tendency to absorb water from the atmosphere.
Many industrialized nations are trying to use less coal, oil and natural gas to lower carbon dioxide levels, which is warming the atmosphere and changing the Earth's climate.
The daily cycle of higher pressure in the morning and lower pressure in the evening results from daytime heating of the atmosphere by the sun.
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Instead, its altitude was 80km lower, and it is reckoned to have burned up in the Martian atmosphere.
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