"temperature inversion" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1952 July 30, Vern Haugland (Associated Press), \"Air Force Says Saucers No Menace to US\", Ludington Daily News (Michigan, USA), p. 1 (Retrieved 21 June 2012)",
          "text": "Temperature inversions can occur in perfectly clear skies. Samford said such an inversion was present in the Washington area early last Sunday, when up to a dozen unidentified flying objects appeared on radar screens both at Washington national airport and nearby Andrews air base."
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          "ref": "1993 March 6, Linda Hetsel, “Jets over Gulf may have caused booms”, in Victoria Advocate, Texas, USA, retrieved 2012-06-21, page 12A",
          "text": "It's possible that a temperature inversion—a layer of warm air lying on top of a layer of cold air—is causing the sounds of the sonic booms to be carried inland, he said.",
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          "ref": "2005 Dec. 13, Joe Bauman, \"Wasatch's gray skies trigger a red advisory, but a storm front today could ease air pollution, Deseret News (Utah, USA) (Retrieved 21 June 2012)",
          "text": "Bottled up by a temperature inversion, the gunk grew so dense that the Utah Division of Air Quality imposed the season's first \"red\" no-burn restrictions,"
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        "An atmospheric condition in which a cooler layer of air lies below a warmer layer of air that functions as a \"ceiling\" for the cooler layer, interfering with normal atmospheric circulation and trapping pollutants."
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        "(meteorology) An atmospheric condition in which a cooler layer of air lies below a warmer layer of air that functions as a \"ceiling\" for the cooler layer, interfering with normal atmospheric circulation and trapping pollutants."
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          "ref": "1952 July 30, Vern Haugland (Associated Press), \"Air Force Says Saucers No Menace to US\", Ludington Daily News (Michigan, USA), p. 1 (Retrieved 21 June 2012)",
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