question about greenhouse gases

[gib65]

Where is the majority of greenhouse gases concentrated? Is it more or less evenly distributed throughout the atmosphere or do they reside in their own distinct layer high above ground level?

[Gypsy Cake]

I think they're below the ozone layer. Someone correct me.

[insane_alien]

stratopause and under i think. they mostly stay below because they are created on the surface and winds rarely transport significant quantities of air above that.

 

although if you do it by density then the closer to the ground the more.

[jackson33]

Ozone, are thinly scattered particle's most found in the stratosphere (2nd layer) and much smaller amounts in the troposphere or close to earth. oxygen which has been effected by heat makes ozone, which in turn deflects some harmful ultra-violate energy or that which is harmful to life.

 

our atmosphere 77% nitrogen and 22% oxygen has small amounts of CO2, methanes and other elements, produced mostly by nature, which hold heat or reflected energy on the planet, along with moisture. the outer two atmospheres work in reverse from solar energy. these cushion the rays or energy from extreme heat during the day, opposed to extreme cold at night from held heat. temperatures can reach 1000 degree C, plus in the outer or ionosphere, yet very cold -200 in the mesosphere.