What is Air Mass?

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...