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With suitable examples describe the impacts of movement of airmasses on weather and winds in different parts of the continents.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Climatology

An air mass takes on the temperature and moisture of its source region — Siberia, the Sahara, the Gulf of Mexico — and, once steered out by the general circulation, exports that weather to regions thousands of kilometres away while being modified en route.

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  • 1. Equatorward Movement of Polar Air — Cold Surges
  • North America
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Southern continents
  • 2. Poleward Movement of Tropical Air — Heat, Humidity and Storms
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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