A large volume of air that has nearly the same temperature and humidity at different locations at the same altitude is called the Air Mass. Air mass covers hundreds or thousands of square miles and adapt to the characteristics of the surface below them at the same time they are also classified according to latitude and their continental or maritime source regions.
The sequence is in the following order;
- The sun radiated sunlight (visible) photons
- Photons from the sun strike the earth and become infrared photons
- Earth radiates infrared photons into the atmosphere
- CO2 in the atmosphere absorb infrared photons
- CO2 in the atmosphere emit infrared photons back towards earth
3451 miles / 5555 kilometers / 2999 nautical miles.
Atmosphere, the global sum of all ecosystems, and the kithosphere
