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Air masses contain uniform temperature and humidity characteristics and form over source regions with consistent properties. Fronts are boundaries between unlike air masses. There are five main types of air masses classified by moisture content (continental or maritime) and temperature (tropical, polar, or arctic): continental polar (cP), continental tropical (cT), continental arctic (cA), maritime polar (mP), and maritime tropical (mT). As air masses migrate from their source regions, they can be modified
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