turbopause

English

Etymology

From turbo- +‎ -pause.

Noun

turbopause (plural turbopauses)

  1. (meteorology) The altitude in the Earth's atmosphere below which turbulent mixing dominates, at about 60 miles or 100 km, which separates the heterosphere from the homosphere.

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