Sunday, December 16, 2012

notes summery


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.