Define Continental polar air mass in ur own word?
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That would be a cold (or at least cool), dry mass of air that originated over a large region of land near the north pole.  (Not over an ocean, unless it was the Arctic Ocean, which is covered by ice.)
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Land mass? Canada\nPolitically? USA
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To be tecchnically accurate the largest Continent (single land mass with a continental shelf) is Eur-asia, since Europe and Aiusa are conjoined  it is only geo-politically accurate to refer to them as separate continents. They are in fact one land mass and therefore the largest continent.
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The word continent is from the Latin "continens" meaning "continuous land."  The prefix "sub-" means "less than."  So subcontinent is a piece of land smaller than a continent.  The term is usually only applied to the region around India or to Greenland.
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They know where air masses originate & how cold those air masses are when they start at their source region.\n\nAs the air mass moves across the continent, it changes in temp to that closer in temp to the air mass already in place.\n\nFor instance, if an air mass orginates over nothern Canada, it will be dry & cold. As it moves south, it will start taking on characteristics of the areas that it moves over. It will get warmer. By the time it reaches say, Mexico, it will have warmed up tremendously.\n\nThey can predict how much kinetic energy will be gained or lost by that.\n\nI don't think there is an exact formula for this kind of science. Most of predicting the weather is actually "predicting"!\n\n;)
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The north pole is not on a continent.  It is in the middle of the arctic ocean which has a frozen ice cap.
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Air masses form over parts of the earth's surface called source regions, which are large bodies of water or landmasses with relatively uniform topography, often ranging hundreds of thousands of square miles in area.
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I S LAND\nLAND In Sea\nIn Sea LAND thats where the word came from\n\na land mass is so called becaus the "seas or oceans" may differ on either sides so its not a " land in a sea".\nhope this explains a bit better.
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Europe and Asia are really one big continent Eurasia.\n\nEurasia and Africa are joined at Suez and so could be considered a single land mass if we ignore the man-made Suez Canal\n\nLikewise North and South America are a single land mass.  The  Panama Canal is even less of a division since it rises above sea level on locks.\n\nOnly Australia and Antarctica are completely isolated continents
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What is air?  It is a mixture of gases, trapped in the gravity of the Earth, that form an envelope around our planet.  It is a mixture of nitrogen (~78%), oxygen (~21%), and the rest small amounts of carbon dioxide, water vapor, argon, neon, carbon monoxide, and traces of other gases.\n\nIf there were no nuclei present, there would be no matter present, and that is the definition of a vacuum.
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Convection is the transfer of heat by currents within a fluid. It may arise from temperature differences either within the fluid or between the fluid and its boundary, which would affect density.\n\nIn meteorology and physical oceanography, advection usually refers to the predominantly horizontal transport of an atmospheric property or oceanic fluid by the wind, e.g. moisture or heat advection. \n\nWeather front is, in meteorology, a boundary between two air masses with differing characteristics (e.g., air temperature or humidity).\n\nDepression is an area of low atmospheric pressure associated with cyclones and weather fronts.
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You may be right.  The force that they respond to is gravity.  Cold air, being denser, will, in a fluid medium, be drawn closer to the earth, displacing warmer, less dense air.
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Atmosphere\nPascal\nBar\nlbs/cm^2
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Neither.  It is more of an oval thanks to the strong magnetic pull at the *top* and *bottom* (North and South Poles) of the earth which also have to do with gravity.  Were these features any different, the fowl of the air would not know where to go in the winter.
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climate or atmosphere
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The Artic Ocean touches Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Norway, SO ... the continents would be:\n\nGreenland = North America\nCanada = North America\nAlaska = Noth America\nRussia = Asia / Europe\nNorway = Europe
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Wind Patterns probably refer to the Global Wind Patterns or Prevaling Winds that are associated with different latitudes.\n\nThis is probably best illustrated by the figure from the Texas A&M Desesrts course web site referenced below.\n\nTo summarize, \nthe polar latitudes between 60 and 90 degrees (both north and south) have prevaling "Polar Easterly" winds.\nLatitudes between 30 and 60 degrees (again both north and south) have prevaling "Westerly" winds.\nThe region between 30 degrees north to 30 degrees south have prevaling easterly "Trade Winds."