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Absolute humidity

Sergiy A. Gritcsenko edited this page Apr 12, 2017 · 12 revisions

Relative humidity (RH)

The ratio of the actual amount of water vapour in the air to the amount it could hold when saturated expressed as a percentage or the ratio of the actual vapour pressure to the saturation vapour pressure expressed as a percentage.

RH=100 \cdot \frac{e}{e_w}

Absolute humidity

The mass of water vapour in a unit volume of air. It is a measure of the actual water vapour content of the air.

AH=\frac{m_v}{V}

From relative humidity and saturation vapour pressure we can find actual vapour pressure.

e= e_w \frac{RH}{100}

Then we can use the general law of perfect gases

PV=\frac{m}{M}RT

where

In our case this is

eV=mR_vT

water molar mass is

and we've got specific gas constant for water vapour

Thus we can express mass to volume ratio as

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