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Humidity

Humidity is the concentration of water vapor in the air, influencing precipitation, dew, and fog. It is measured in three ways: absolute, relative, and specific humidity, with specific humidity representing the mass of water vapor relative to the total mass of the air parcel. The relationship between humidity and temperature is inversely proportional, affecting the air's capacity to hold moisture and leading to saturation and cloud formation.

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Humidity

Humidity is the concentration of water vapor in the air, influencing precipitation, dew, and fog. It is measured in three ways: absolute, relative, and specific humidity, with specific humidity representing the mass of water vapor relative to the total mass of the air parcel. The relationship between humidity and temperature is inversely proportional, affecting the air's capacity to hold moisture and leading to saturation and cloud formation.

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Humidity

• Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.


• Humidity indicates the likelihood for precipitation, dew, or fog to be
present.
• Humidity depends on the temperature and pressure of the system of
interest.
• Three primary measurements of humidity are widely employed:
absolute, relative, and specific.
• Absolute humidity is expressed as either mass of water vapor per
volume of moist air (in grams per cubic meter) or as mass of water
vapor per mass of dry air (usually in grams per kilogram).
• Relative humidity, often expressed as a percentage, indicates a
present state of absolute humidity relative to a maximum humidity
given the same temperature.
• Specific humidity is the ratio of water vapor mass to total moist air
parcel mass.
Specific humidity

• Specific humidity (or moisture content) is the ratio of the mass of


water vapor to the total mass of the air parcel.
• The relation between humidity and temperature formula simply says
they are inversely proportional, given a fixed amount of water
vapour.
• If temperature increases it will lead to a decrease in relative
humidity, thus the air will become drier whereas when temperature
decreases, the air will become wet means the relative humidity will
increase.
• Air usually contains moisture at a particular level and when the air
contains this moisture up to its maximum capacity at a certain
temperature, the air is said to be saturated which means at this point
the air is not able to hold any more moisture content. The
temperature at which the air gets saturated where it does not have
any additional capacity to hold more moisture is known as the dew
point.
• this saturated air leads to the formation of the clouds which leads to
various forms of precipitation. Thus, there is a direct relation
between the relative humidity as well as the dew point.

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