Yeah I know I would say unseen force or manipulation of energy but that falls into water, but if air is intellect maybe it grants you perception, like the Sight except more specific but I am just throwing things in the air at this point. Sorry for the play on words.
Take a look at airbender, it's a subtle difference between them. creating something that channels air has a.... a specific point of greatest effect followed by dispersion/decay, where as water flows in a wave keeping the full force along it's edge as it gathers momentum and then ebbs away. Iirc actually Ivy uses the same principle I describe above to disperse fire blasts from the denarians with far greater precision.
Although Elaine, who I account as a natural with Air, does actually uses a 'spider-sense' ring, to precog incoming dangers.
*ahh the difference is basically the difference of Energy vs Momentum. Momentum is Mass x Velocity, Energy is One half mass times Velocity, times Velocity again. So how they express themselves in the same relative usage is entirely different.