Wikibooks: Meteorology/Definition

An air mass is a large volume of air in the atmosphere that is mostly uniform in temperature and moisture. They can extend thousands of miles across the surface and can go from the ground level to the stratosphere 16 kilometers (10 miles) into the atmosphere. Air masses can be classified as either a...

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spelling ftwikibooks:enwikibooks:88062:455856 2024-06-23T07:50:04+00:00 Wikibooks: Meteorology/Definition https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Meteorology/Definition eng eng Book ftwikibooks 2024-06-09T12:11:50Z An air mass is a large volume of air in the atmosphere that is mostly uniform in temperature and moisture. They can extend thousands of miles across the surface and can go from the ground level to the stratosphere 16 kilometers (10 miles) into the atmosphere. Air masses can be classified as either as Arctic Air masses Tropical Air masses Polar Air masses and Equatorial Air Masses. Cite web url=https //education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/air mass/ title=Air Mass access date=2023 05 09 publisher=National Geographic Society =Sources= reflist BookCat Book Arctic WikiBooks - Open-content textbooks Arctic
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description An air mass is a large volume of air in the atmosphere that is mostly uniform in temperature and moisture. They can extend thousands of miles across the surface and can go from the ground level to the stratosphere 16 kilometers (10 miles) into the atmosphere. Air masses can be classified as either as Arctic Air masses Tropical Air masses Polar Air masses and Equatorial Air Masses. Cite web url=https //education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/air mass/ title=Air Mass access date=2023 05 09 publisher=National Geographic Society =Sources= reflist BookCat
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