Diathermancy
Diathermancy. Diathermancy was first described by German physicist and chemist Heinrich Magnus in the 1800s. Atmospheric air is diathermanous; therefore, air is not heated by sunshine, but by long wave heat reflected by soil, and especially, by water on the Earth's surface. Water, on the contrary, is not diathermanous, and it is heated directly by sunshine.Atmospheric heating from oceanic waters
Atmospheric heat comes from long wave radiation from the soil and, mostly, from the water surface, since water is a not diathermanous body and covers three quarters of Earth's surface. Diathermancy cause subsidence on damp or water surfaces. That is because these areas tend to absorb heat radiation directly from the Sun but very slowly and also emits this radiation to the atmosphere very slowly. Therefore, cold ocean currents have very clear skies, without clouds, because subsidence from cold and heavy air avoids or limits convection since they are opposite processes.
