Thank you But the article on greenhouse gases says Other important considerations involve water vapor being the only greenhouse gas whose concentration is highly variable in space and time in the atmosphere and the only one that also exists in both liquid and solid phases frequently changing to and from each of the three phases or existing in mixes Such considerations include clouds themselves air and water vapor density interactions when they are the same or different temperatures the absorption and release of kinetic energy as water evaporates and condenses to and from vapor and behaviors related to vapor partial pressure Is this variability also well understood and predictable That was behind my question