What is the driving force for atmospheric motion?

Best Answer

The sun.

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Everything I%26#039;ve read say%26#039;s it the sun.The others are just secondary effects.
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• Heat from our Sun. Cold of the night. The volatile water cycle. Ocean currents. El nina, el nino. Spin of our Earth. Amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere - we do need some.
• heat from the sun and the water cycle.
• The sun, rotation of the earth. Secondarily, heating and cooling cycles of the earth.