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    Temperatures must be converted to units of degrees Celsius (degC) and the station pressure to units of millibars (mb) or hectoPascals (hPa) then, the saturation vapor pressure and the actual vapor pressure can be calculated. A wetbulb temperature (T w) must be calculated using a SkewT diagram.

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    Temperatures must be converted to units of degrees Celsius (degC) and the station pressure to units of millibars (mb) or hectoPascals (hPa) then, the saturation vapor pressure and the actual vapor pressure can be calculated. A wetbulb temperature (T w) must be calculated using a SkewT diagram.

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    Temperatures must be converted to units of degrees Celsius (degC) and the station pressure to units of millibars (mb) or hectoPascals (hPa) then, the saturation vapor pressure and the actual vapor pressure can be calculated. A wetbulb temperature (T w) must be calculated using a SkewT diagram.

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    WetBulbTemperatureandRelativeHumidityfromAir

    TemperatureandDewpointTemperature
    Fromtheuser,anairtemperature (T ) ,adewpointtemperature (T d) ,andastation
    pressure (P sta) aregiven.ThetemperaturesmustbeconvertedtounitsofdegreesCelsius
    (C),andthestationpressuremustbeconvertedtounitsofmillibars (mb) or
    hectoPascals (hP a) .
    Toseehowtoconverttemperaturesandpressures,seethelinksbelow:
    TemperatureConversion
    PressureConversion
    Then,thesaturationvaporpressureandtheactualvaporpressurecanbecalculated.
    Toseehowtocalculatethevaporpressure,seethelinkbelow:
    VaporPressureCalculation
    Next,therelativehumiditycanbecalculatedbyusingthevaporpressure:

    rh = ees 100
    Next,awetbulbtemperature (T w) mustbecalculated.Thebestwaytodothisisbyusinga
    SkewTdiagramwhichisusedbytheNationalWeatherServiceandothermeteorologists
    fordeterminingthecurrentstateoftheatmosphere.AblankSketTdiagramcanbefound
    hereatthislink:
    http://bretwhissel.net/skewt/skewthib.pdf
    ForinformationonhowtoreadandunderstandaSkewTdiagram,leethelinkbelow:
    http://www.theweatherprediction.com/thermo/
    Forfindingthewetbulbtemperature,firstfindtheelevationofyourlocation.Next,atthe
    elevationofyourlocation,plottheairtemperature(indegreesCelsius)andthedewpoint
    temperatureonthechart.Taketheairtemperatureupthedryadiabatlineandthedewpoint

    temperatureupthethetalineuntiltheymeet.Atthepointwheretheymeet,comeback
    downthemoist(orwet)adiabattotheelevationofyourstation.Thiswillbethewetbulb
    temperature.FortheWeatherCalculator,aprocessoferrorcheckingisusedtogivean
    approximatewetbulbtemperature.

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