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Moisture and Atmospheric Stability

Lab Questions

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INSTRUCTIONS: Please read the lab reader before beginning this exercise. The following lab questions will be based upon the material given in the lab reader. The course textbook and lecture notes will serve as useful resources for this exercise.

Part 1: Atmospheric Moisture

From the reading, we know that relative humidity is measured as:

We also know what the saturation vapor pressure (in millibars) is for every temperature (in degrees Celsius). Values of saturation vapor pressure are shown for a range of temperatures on the following tables: