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- troposhpere
- the air we breath and also contains 99% of all atmosphere's molecules
- exosphere
- consists mainly of hydrogen atoms that are too spaced too far apart to collide- one atom may orbit the entire globe without encountering another
- AWS
- are highly technical pieces of equiptment based on ground that take readings of temperature, huimidity, wind speed, and direction, barometric pressure and transmitt weather stations
- allow sunlight to pass through to heat the earth but don't let the heat escape
- greenhouse gases
- GOES
- Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
- atmosphere
- the multi-layered 600 mile shields of gases that surround the earth
- sun
- energizes atmosophere into what we know was weather
- mesosphere
- contains nitrogen and oxygen molecules ( still thinly spread to allow breathing )
- "radio detection"
- radar
- weather balloons
- take electronic instruments high into the atmosphere and transmitt readings to the ground stations
- water cycle
- the sun provides energy to evaporate water into the atmosphere where it forms from clouds and eventually falls back to earth
- orbit the earth and transmitt information about winds, clouds, ground temperature, and ocean waves
- satellites
- natural heating process of earth and its atmosphere
- greenhouse affect