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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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Summary

air mass ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,141 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: air[2]
  • Part of: troposphere[3]
  • Commons category: Air masses[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Air masses[5]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[6], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[8]
  • P14541: 2Kp6Ny[9]

Why It Matters

air mass has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10h ago · Ginta Pankoka · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of latvia id → 000087437
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'be', 'bh', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of latvia id: 000087437"
  2. 23d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → air-masses
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: air-masses, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289912091|air masses (#289912091)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2Kp6Ny
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → air
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Aliases → —
    Described by source → Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007294762305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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