relative humidity derivations

  1. relative humidity from H2O partial pressure

    symbol description unit variable name
    \(e_{w}\) saturated water vapor pressure \(Pa\)  
    \(p_{H_{2}O}\) partial pressure of H2O \(Pa\) H2O_partial_pressure {:}
    \(T\) temperature \(K\) temperature {:}
    \(\phi\) relative humidity \(\frac{Pa}{Pa}\) relative_humidity {:}

    The pattern : for the dimensions can represent {vertical}, {latitude,longitude}, {latitude,longitude,vertical}, {time}, {time,vertical}, {time,latitude,longitude}, {time,latitude,longitude,vertical}, or no dimensions at all.

    \begin{eqnarray} e_{w} & = & 610.94e^{\frac{17.625(T-273.15)}{(T-273.15)+243.04}} \\ \phi & = & \frac{p_{H_{2}O}}{e_{w}} \end{eqnarray}