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What are air masses and how do they form?

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a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.

Step-by-step explanation:

An air mass forms whenever the atmosphere remains in contact with a large, relatively uniform land or sea surface for a time sufficiently long to acquire the temperature and moisture properties of that surface. The Earth's major air masses originate in polar or subtropical latitudes.

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