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Kent Ehrhardt: July 2007 Archives


What Is A Dewpoint?

8:49 PM Mon, Jul 09, 2007 |

Relative humidity can be a difficult concept to understand. It is expressed as a percentage...but a percentage of what? In the simplest terms I can manage relative humidity is a measure of how full the atmosphere is of water vapor at a given temperature. The temperature is the key because warm air will hold more water vapor than cold air. Say we have a parcel of air that is 80 degrees with a relative humidity of 60%. If we ra...

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