âGypsumâs main benefit for our farm is to improve soil structure and plant health, which in turn gives us better yields,â he says. âFor the cost, it gives us a good value for our economic returnâabout 10 to 20%.â
By understanding the way temperature changes with altitude, we can learn a lot about how the atmosphere works. For example, the reason that weather takes place in the lowest layer is that the Earth's surface is the atmosphere's primary heat source.n some layers, temperature increases with altitude and in others it decreases. The temperature gradient in each layer is determined by the heat source of the layer. The different temperature gradients in each of the four main layers create the thermal structure of the atmosphere.
In this region of the atmosphere is the ozone layer, which absorbs most of the harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. The temperature increases slightly with altitude in the stratosphere. The highest temperature in this region is about 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius. Mesosphere: The mesosphere is above the stratosphere. Here the atmosphere is very rarefied, that is, thin, and the temperature is decreasing with altitude, about â130 Fahrenheit (-90 Celsius) at the top. Thermosphere: The thermosphere starts at about 55 kilometers.