The Atmosphere Render Element stores only atmospheric or volumetric participating media such as fog Environment Fogor Aerial Perspective. This render element can then be used to enhance or color-correct just the atmospheric component of the image during the compositing process.
When atmospheric effects or fog is included in a scene, they will render into the Beauty|RGB channel, and should also be output as the VRayAtmosphere the VRayAtmosphere channel for compositing use.
UI Path: ||V-Ray|| > Render Elements > Atmospheric Effects