Atmosphere Gases, Heats, and Pressures
Channel: Earth Rocks!
Date: 2018-07-25

For an introductory college-level oceanography  class: a review of the composition of Earth's atmosphere including the layers of the atmosphere, the gases within, the ozone layer, the heat budget, air pressure, rising and falling air, and the solar constant. 

**This video comes near the middle of the semester, so there may be terms with which the audience is unfamiliar. For a full playlist, refer to the Oceanography playlist on the Earth Rocks! YouTube Channel.

Content within this video is based on information available in any standard introductory college oceanography textbook, such as Essentials of Oceanography -- Trujillo and Thurman -- Pearson Publishing.

Part of the Video Series: Air-Sea Interactions

Part 1: Seasons
Part 2: Relative Humidity
Part 3: Atmospheric Gases, Heats, Pressures
Part 4: Atmospheric Circulation
Part 5: Weather Phenomena

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NOTE: This version is revised from previous, which had 1,642 views. It was updated to fix an error in the last quiz.