Air Mass
Climate Change
A body of air covering a relatively wide area and exhibiting horizontally uniform properties.
- — ARM Climate Research Glossary retrieved 2014-06-12
Air mass An extensive body of the atmosphere in which physical properties, particularly temperature and humidity, exhibit only small and continuous differences in the horizontal. It may extend over an area of several million square kilometers and over a height of several kilometers.
Weather
A body of air covering a relatively wide area and exhibiting horizontally uniform properties.