Yes, greenhouse gases trap heat in the troposphere, which is the lowest layer of the earth's atmosphere.
The greenhouse effect (greenhouse gases capture heat radiating up from the earth).
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb and retain infrared radiation (heat) from the surface of the earth.
Greenhouse gases trap infrared heat (from the sun) rising from the surface of the earth. More greenhouse gases trap more heat, and this is the situation now. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in particular are trapping more heat and causing a global warming.
Greenhouse gases capture heat rising from the surface of the earth. This extra heat is causing global warming, and is changing the climate.
Heat-trapping gases.
The greenhouse effect is more pronounced for the earth's surface. Heat rising from the surface is trapped by greenhouse gases. These warm gases heat the air around them as well, also, as the earth' surface again.
They slow the loss of heat
Greenhouse gases
Greenhouse gases.
greenhouse effect
The sun heats the atmosphere. Solar radiation largely passes through the atmosphere and warms the surface of the earth. The earth then radiates heat up into the lower levels of the atmosphere where greenhouse gases warm. The warmed greenhouse gases then continue to radiate heat in all directions warming the atmosphere and again the earth's surface.
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb and retain infrared radiation (heat) from the surface of the earth.
Heat rising from the surface of the earth.
The greenhouse effect (greenhouse gases capture heat radiating up from the earth).
Greenhouse gases trap infrared heat (from the sun) rising from the surface of the earth. More greenhouse gases trap more heat, and this is the situation now. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in particular are trapping more heat and causing a global warming.
The greenhouse effect!
Greenhouse gases absorb Infrared heat rising from the surface of the earth.