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The atmosphere is heated from below only.That is why the temperature decreases as you go up.The sunlight reaches the surface of the earth without heating the atmosphere in between. It is the reflected sunlight from the surface(called the terrestrial radiation) which heats the atmosphere by conduction, convection and radiation.