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Atmospheric Humidity

The document discusses different methods for measuring atmospheric humidity, including the sling psychrometer which uses dry and wet bulb thermometers to measure humidity, the hygrometer which uses human hair to indicate relative humidity, and the hygrothermograph which records humidity and temperature on a graph over time. Key terms discussed are relative humidity, dew point, and the relationship between dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature, and relative humidity.

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Atmospheric Humidity

The document discusses different methods for measuring atmospheric humidity, including the sling psychrometer which uses dry and wet bulb thermometers to measure humidity, the hygrometer which uses human hair to indicate relative humidity, and the hygrothermograph which records humidity and temperature on a graph over time. Key terms discussed are relative humidity, dew point, and the relationship between dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature, and relative humidity.

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ATMOSPHERIC

HUMIDITY
Relative Humidity - RH (%)
Difference Between Dry Dry Bulb Temperature - Tdb (oF)
Bulb
and Wet Bulb
Temperatures
Tdb - Twb
(oF) 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 88

1 94 95 95 95 96 96 96 96
2 90 90 90 91 91 92 92 92
3 84 85 85 86 87 88 88 89
4 78 80 81 82 83 84 84 85
5 73 75 76 78 79 80 80 81
6 68 70 72 73 75 76 77 78
7 63 66 67 69 71 72 73 74
8 58 61 63 65 67 68 70 71
9 54 57 59 61 63 65 66 68
10 49 52 55 57 59 61 63 64
Relative Humidity - RH (%)

Difference Between Dry Dry Bulb Temperature - Tdb (oC)


Bulb
and Wet Bulb
Temperatures
Tdb - Twb
(oC)

15 18 20 22 25 27 30 33

1 90 91 91 92 92 92 93 93

2 80 82 83 84 85 85 86 87

3 71 73 75 76 77 78 79 80

4 62 65 67 68 70 71 73 74
A. Sling Psychrometer
The sling psychrometer consists of a dry and wet-
bulb thermometer. The term bulb refers to that
portion of the glass tube where the mercury is
stored. The dry and wet bulbs are exactly alike
in construction. The only difference is that the
wet-bulb has a piece of muslin cloth or wick
wrapped around its bulb and which is dipped in
water shortly before the psychrometer is read.
A. Sling Psychrometer
This is how it is done. The weather observer
firsts wets the cloth cladding the wet-bulb, whirls
the psychrometer a few times, then reads the
wet-bulb. He reads the dry-bulb last. Normally,
the wet-bulb's reading will be lower than the dry-
bulb's. The dry-bulb reading is the air
temperature.
A. Sling Psychrometer
The difference between the dry and the wet-bulb
readings will give, with the aid of a
psychrometric table, the dew point temperature
and the relative humidity. (Dew point is the
temperature at which the water vapor will
condense while relative humidity is the ratio of
the amount of water vapor actually present in
the air to the maximum amount of water vapor
the air can hold at a given temperature).
B. Hygrometer

The other instrument used to measure humidity is


the Hygrometer. The hygrometer is less
accurate than the psychrometer. It uses human
hair from which the oil has been removed by
using ether. The hair becomes longer as the
relative humidity of the air increases. This
change can be made to move an indicator
needle which moves over a scale, the
graduations of which reads from 0% to 100%.
C. Hygrothermograph

The hygrothermograph records both relative


humidity and temperature on graph paper in the
same manner as the thermograph and
barograph do.

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