air mass

widespread body of air approximately homogeneous in its horizontal extent with vertical temperature and moisture variations that are approximately the same over its horizontal extent
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air mass

Summary

air mass ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (118 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • air mass's GND ID is recorded as 4168272-5[2].
  • air mass's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85002670[3].
  • air mass's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11983154f[4].
  • air mass's subclass of is recorded as air[5].
  • air mass's part of is recorded as troposphere[6].
  • air mass's Commons category is recorded as Air masses[7].
  • air mass's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 45864[8].
  • air mass's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01mv3h[9].
  • air mass's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Air masses[10].
  • air mass's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 551.5512[11].
  • air mass's PSH ID is recorded as 4136[12].
  • air mass's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 927009[13].
  • air mass's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0233850[14].
  • air mass's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[15].
  • air mass's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16].
  • air mass's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1924289[17].
  • air mass's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as masses-d-air[18].
  • air mass's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as air-masses[19].
  • air mass's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].
  • air mass's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 142669682[21].
  • air mass's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/896[22].
  • air mass's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007294762305171[23].
  • air mass's Glossary of Meteorology ID is recorded as 232[24].
  • air mass's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2992479035[25].
  • air mass's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 46905[26].

Why It Matters

air mass ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (118 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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