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Humidity - 3 Types and its Measurement
HUMIDITY Types & Measurement
This lecture by Dr. Manishika Jain focuses on the Humidity - Absolute Humidity, Specific Humidity and Relative Humidity and its measurements.
- Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air.
- Weather humidity is relative humidity.
- Amount of water vapor in the air, as a percentage of the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at that temperature.
- Greater over the oceans and least over the continents.
- Air containing moisture to its full capacity is saturated
- People are usually comfortable at 45-percent relative humidity.
- Highest annual evaporation- sub-tropics of the western North Atlantic and North Pacific- Gulf Stream and the Kurishino Current
- Dew point occurs when Relative Humidity is 100%
Types
Measurement of Humidity
Role in Climatology
✍ Manishika