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• Monsoon: A seasonal increase in precipitation driven by atmospheric conditions.
• Hadley Cell: A global scale atmospheric cell driven by air rising near the equator and falling as it flows towards the polls.
• Ferrel Cell: A secondary atmospheric circulation that collides with the Hadley cell and pushes air back down towards the Earth’s surface.
• Intertropical Convergence Zone: The narrow zone between the northern and southern Hadley cells where warm air comes together and rises.
• Tropopause: The boundary area roughly 15 kilometers above the Earth’s surface between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
• Radionuclide: Isotopes of atoms that release radiation as they break down.
• Beryllium-7: A relatively stable radionuclide of the element Beryllium that naturally forms in the tropopause during spallation.
• Spallation: The process in which a heavier atom loses nuclear particles after being bombarded by cosmic rays.
• Cosmic Rays: High energy atomic particles that move at near light speed through space.

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