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How Do I Calculate Dew Point When I Know The Temperature and The Relative Humidity?

To calculate dew point from temperature and relative humidity: 1) Relative humidity gives the ratio of the actual moisture in the air to the maximum it can hold at that temperature. 2) The exact calculation involves using vapor pressure and saturation vapor pressure equations based on the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. 3) A simpler approximation formula is: Dew point temperature = Observed temperature - (100 - Relative humidity)/5, which is fairly accurate for relative humidity above 50%.

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How Do I Calculate Dew Point When I Know The Temperature and The Relative Humidity?

To calculate dew point from temperature and relative humidity: 1) Relative humidity gives the ratio of the actual moisture in the air to the maximum it can hold at that temperature. 2) The exact calculation involves using vapor pressure and saturation vapor pressure equations based on the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. 3) A simpler approximation formula is: Dew point temperature = Observed temperature - (100 - Relative humidity)/5, which is fairly accurate for relative humidity above 50%.

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How do I calculate dew point when I know the

temperature and the relative humidity?


Relative humidity gives the ratio of how much moisture the air is holding to how much moisture it could hold at a given temperature.
This can be expressed in terms of vapor pressure and saturation vapor pressure:
RH = 100% x (E/Es)
where, according to an approximation of the Clausius-Clapeyron equation:
E = E0 x exp[(L/Rv) x {(1/T0) - (1/Td)}] and
Es = E0 x exp[(L/Rv) x {(1/T0) - (1/T)}]
where E0 = 0.611 kPa, (L/Rv) = 5423 K (in Kelvin, over a flat surface of water), T0 = 273 K (Kelvin)
and T is temperature (in Kelvin), and Td is dew point temperature (also in Kelvin).
So, if you know the temperature, you can solve for Es, and substitute the equation for E into the expression for relative humidity and solve for Td (dew point).
If you are interested in a simpler calculation that gives an approximation of dew point temperature if you know the observed temperature and relative humidity, the
following formula was proposed in a 2005 article by Mark G. Lawrence in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:
Td = T - ((100 - RH)/5.)
where Td is dew point temperature (in degrees Celsius), T is observed temperature (in degrees Celsius), and RH is relative humidity (in percent). Apparently this
relationship is fairly accurate for relative humidity values above 50%.

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