Warm air rising from Earth's surface pushes the air mass away from the equator, and releases its moisture as precipitation as it travels pole-ward (Figure 1). If the Earth did not spin on its axis ...

An air mass is a large volume of air which travels from one area to another. An air mass is a large body of air - usually thousands of kilometres wide. It will remain over a place for a period of ...

It will then start to move bringing those characteristics with it. Air masses never mix. Our weather is determined by which air mass is most dominant at that time. This is one of the reasons why ...