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  1. Lower part of the Earth's atmosphere
  2. extending about 10.5 km/6.5 mi from the
  3. Earth's surface, in which temperature
  4. decreases with height to about -60 degrees
  5. C/-76 degrees F except in local layers of
  6. temperature inversion. The tropopause is the
  7. upper boundary of the troposphere above which
  8. the temperature increases slowly with height
  9. within the atmosphere.
  10.