Field project seeks clues to climate change in remote atmospheric region

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Atmospheric scientists are conducting research on the tropopause the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere. Credit: NASA
Atmospheric scientists are conducting research on the tropopause, the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere. Credit: NASA

Scientists are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a region of the atmosphere that influences climate change by affecting the amount of solar heat that reaches Earth's surface.


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