air-mass analysis
air-mass analysis
[′er ‚mas ə′nal·ə·səs] (meteorology)
In general, the theory and practice of synoptic surface-chart analysis by the so-called Norwegian methods, which involve the concepts of the polar front and of the broad-scale air masses which it separates.
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