English-Dutch translations for stratosphere

• stratosfeer
  De verdunning van de ozonlaag in de stratosfeer is een van de ernstigste milieuproblemen waarmee wij geconfronteerd zijn. The depletion of the ozone layers in the stratosphere is one of the most momentous environmental problems we are facing.
  Het beleid voor de bescherming van de ozonlaag in de stratosfeer wordt erkend als een groot succes. De rol van de Europese Unie daarbij was van doorslaggevend belang. The policy on the protection of the ozone layer in the stratosphere has been acknowledged as a very great success and the European Union has played a decisive role here.

Definition of stratosphere

• Collectively, those layers of the ’s which primarily
• The region of the uppermost atmosphere where temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone. The stratosphere extends from the tropopause to approximately 50 kilometers, where it is succeeded by the mesosphere

Related words

• stratospheric
• stratosphere balloon
• polar stratospheric cloud
• open stratospheric balloon