The stratosphere is the layer of air above the one where weather happens. Fly in the stratosphere.
It gets warmer with height rather than colder, which is why it has almost no vertical mixing. Airliners fly at the bottom of the stratosphere to stay above the weather.
1nounstratosphereThe layer of air above the one where weather happens.
“The balloon reached the stratosphere and burst as planned.”
stratosphere is a layer.
French stratosphere was coined by the meteorologist Teisserenc de Bort from strato-, a layer, plus sphere.
French
stratosphère
English, today
stratosphere
From French stratosphère, a word coined by its discoverer, meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort. From strato- + -sphere.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA