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| Heat is transferred by mass movement (by way of these currents) of heated particles into an area of cooler fluid |
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| A condition in which a warm air mass is located above a cold air mass, causing the cold air mass to be trapped near the ground |
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| A three-atom form of oxygen that, in a layer in the stratosphere, screens out harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun |
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| Radiation having a wavelength shorter than wavelengths of visible light and longer than those of X rays; electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between about 0.2 and 0.4 micrometers |
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| A region of the atmosphere with a high concentration of electrically charged atoms (ions) and free electrons |
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