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What is an airmass?

What is an airmass? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) a widespread body of air, the properties of which can be identified as: (a) having been established while that air was situated over a particular region of the Earth's surface (airmass source region) and (b) undergoing specific modifications while in transit away from the source region. An air mass is often defined as a widespread body of air that is approximately homogeneous in its horizontal extent, particularly with reference to temperature and moisture distribution; in addition, the vertical temperature and moisture variations are approximately the same over its horizontal extent.
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Frontal fog forms in the moist airmass trapped beneath a warm frontal inversion.
The airmass was moist and stable in the lowest levels but fairly unstable further aloft.
This year the extra water froze only when it fell into the cold Canadian airmass below.
This Arctic airmass will affect the eastern two-thirds of the country on Monday as a sharp cold front moves towards the East Coast.
Convection in Saskatchewan is most frequently of the airmass variety which is initiated by daytime heating.
In the winter months, with a relatively weak gradient from the northwest and a cold airmass, northwest winds can be quite variable.

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