Notes Summery
99% of
earth’s atmosphere is water vapor only 30 kilometers above earth’s surface.
However most of our weather occurs within the first 10 to 14 kilometers. The
atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0 to 4% water vapor, 0.37%
carbon dioxide, and all the other gases in the world make up the rest.
Invisible atmospheric gases are
nitrogen, argon, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide, clouds are not gases
but condensed vapor in the form of droplets is all they are.
Ground based smog is visible and has
reactants of nitrogen, voc’s and ozone.
The
greenhouse effect is the warming of the atmosphere by absorbing and emitting inferred
radiation.
There are
natural and man made aerosols in the air from soil, ash, sulfur, nitrogen
oxides, and hydrocarbons.
