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Wet Bulb TD From RH
Wet Bulb TD From RH
TemperatureandRelativeHumidity
Note:Thiscalculationisverycomplexandrequiresknowledgeofalgebra.
Toseehowtoconverttemperaturesandpressures,seethelinksbelow:
TemperatureConversion
PressureConversion
VaporPressureCalculation
Next,theequationforcalculatingrelativehumidity:
rh ees 100
Nowwecansolveforthedewpointtemperature:
rh
237.3ln( es611
)
T d 7.5ln10ln( esrh )
611
ThedewpointtemperaturewillbeinunitsofdegreesCelsius(C).Toseehowto
converttemperatures,seethelinkabove.
Next,awetbulbtemperature (T w) mustbecalculated.Thebestwaytodothisisby
usingaSkewTdiagramwhichisusedbytheNationalWeatherServiceandother
meteorologistsfordeterminingthecurrentstateoftheatmosphere.AblankSkewT
diagramcanbefoundhereatthislink:
http://bretwhissel.net/skewt/skewthib.pdf
ForinformationonhowtoreadandunderstandaSkewTdiagram,seethelinkbelow:
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/thermo/
Forfindingthewetbulbtemperature,firstfindtheelevationofyourlocation.Next,at
theelevationofyourlocation,plottheairtemperature(indegreesCelsius)andthe
dewpointtemperatureonthechart.Taketheairtemperatureupthedryadiabatline
andthedewpointtemperatureupthesaturationmixingratiolineuntiltheymeet.Atthe
pointwheretheymeet,comebackdownthemoist(orwet)adiabattotheelevationof
youstation.Thiswillbethewetbulbtemperature.FortheWeatherCalculator,a
processoferrorcheckingisusedtogiveanapproximatewetbulbtemperatures.