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  2. Wet-bulb temperature - Wikipedia

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    The wet-bulb temperature is the lowest temperature that may be achieved by evaporative cooling of a water-wetted, ventilated surface.. By contrast, the dew point is the temperature to which the ambient air must be cooled to reach 100% relative humidity assuming there is no further evaporation into the air; it is the temperature where condensation (dew) and clouds would form.

  3. Dry-bulb temperature - Wikipedia

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    To minimize the effects of radiation on the sensor, one could reduce the sensor's emission factor, or reduce the temperature difference between the sensor and the surrounding surfaces, or add a thin ventilated reflective screen. [1] Unlike wet-bulb temperature, dry-bulb temperature does not indicate the amount of moisture in the air .

  4. Classifications of snow - Wikipedia

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    Snow accumulation on ground and in tree branches in Germany Snow blowing across a highway in Canada Spring snow on a mountain in France. Classifications of snow describe and categorize the attributes of snow-generating weather events, including the individual crystals both in the air and on the ground, and the deposited snow pack as it changes over time.

  5. Humidity - Wikipedia

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    Absolute humidity is expressed as either mass of water vapor per volume of moist air (in grams per cubic meter) [3] or as mass of water vapor per mass of dry air (usually in grams per kilogram). [4] Relative humidity , often expressed as a percentage, indicates a present state of absolute humidity relative to a maximum humidity given the same ...

  6. Lapse rate - Wikipedia

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    The difference in moist adiabatic lapse rate and the dry rate is the cause of foehn wind phenomenon (also known as "Chinook winds" in parts of North America). The phenomenon exists because warm moist air rises through orographic lifting up and over the top of a mountain range or large mountain. The temperature decreases with the dry adiabatic ...

  7. Wood drying - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures, the wet-bulb depression, is used to determine the relative humidity from a standard hygrometric chart (Walker et al., 1993). A higher difference between the dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures indicates a lower relative humidity.

  8. Psychrometrics - Wikipedia

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    Mixtures of air and water vapor are the most common systems encountered in psychrometry. The psychrometric ratio of air-water vapor mixtures is approximately unity, which implies that the difference between the adiabatic saturation temperature and wet bulb temperature of air-water vapor mixtures is small.

  9. Humid continental climate - Wikipedia

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    The snowy city of Sapporo, Japan, has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa).. Using the Köppen climate classification, a climate is classified as humid continental when the temperature of the coldest month is below 0 °C [32.0 °F] or −3 °C [26.6 °F] and there must be at least four months whose mean temperatures are at or above 10 °C (50 °F). [5]