Atmosphere Gas – Nitrogen (most abundant), oxygen, / carbon dioxide – has the ability to absorb heat radiated by earth, water vapor
Atmosphere pressure at sea level – slightly more 1000 millibars, pressure decrease with altitude
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is transparent to incoming Short-Wavelength solar radiation. But it is not transparent to some of the Long –Wavelength outgoing terrestrial radiation.
Ozone –combines 3 atom oxygen (03) / concentrate between 10-50 kilometers above the stratosphere / absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation
SubPolar low – warm and cold winds interact – polar front – area of storms
Standard sea level pressure is expressed as 1013.2 milibars – storm wind