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Explain the relationship between air masses and local winds.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Climatology

An air mass is a body of air hundreds to thousands of kilometres across whose temperature, moisture and lapse rate stay nearly uniform horizontally, acquired over a homogeneous source region; the concept grew out of the Bergen School of Vilhelm Bjerknes, Jacob Bjerknes, Halvor Solberg and Tor Bergeron, whose 1928 scheme gave the source-region labels…

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  • The Air Mass Sets the Character of the Local Wind
  • The Local Wind Rewrites the Air Mass
  • Weighing the Relationship

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