Environment and Climate Change Canada · Federal Open Science Repository of Canada / Le Dépôt fédéral de science ouverte du Canada · 1995
Hu111idity 1 t' s a well-known fa ct th at the body retains more heat wh en the weather is hot and humid thon it does during a drier but equally warm day.Why?As a response to excessive heat in the surrounding environment our bodies perspire to make us feel cooler.Evaporation works best when the air is dry.ln moist saturated air, perspiration cannot evaporate as readily.The combination of excess heat and moisture will cause us to feel hot and sticky.As a rule of thumb, the higher the humidity, the greater the discomfort. "lt's hot, but at least it's a dry heat!" Atmospher1cEnvironnement Canada
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see also moist, moisture, wetIn meteorology, humidity relates to the amount of wetness in the air. More generally, it designates moistness. The word only appears twice in Shakespeare. In MWW, speaking of Falstaff, Mistress Ford tells Mistress Page: ‘We’ll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross wa
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Citation: 'humidity' in the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed.; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. 10.1351/goldbook.H02870 • License: The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International for individual terms. Requests for commercial usage of the compendium should be directed to IUPAC.
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Ian Strangeways · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2000
Just as air, warmed by contact with the ground, is transferred into the atmosphere by processes of diffusion, turbulence and convection, so too is the water vapour produced by evaporation. The ratio in which the net radiative energy is divided between heating the atmosphere, heating the ground and evaporating water is dependent on many factors, such as the amount of water actually available, the nature of the ground and the type of vegetation. Knowing the rate of evaporation of water is useful information in hydrology, meteorology and agriculture, but it is difficult to measure. However, the amount of water vapour in the air, i.e. the air's humidity, is easier to measure and this chapter looks at how it is done; Chapter 6 addresses the more difficult problem of how evaporation rates are measured.
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Humidity is, together with temperature and pressure, one of the fundamental variables that characterize the local state of the atmosphere. Within the realm of agriculture, humidity measurements have a wide variety of applications, including prediction of plant diseases, prediction and maintenance of livestock comfort levels, estimation of evapotranspiration, and planning of hay and grain harvests. In micrometeorology, measurements of temporal and spatial gradients in humidity are used to infer fluxes of water vapor between surface and atmosphere. The requirements for these various applications can be quite different, so the choice of an appropriate measurement method or instrument necessitates some understanding of the underlying principles.
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