[gradsusr] relative humidity

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Rowell, Mason D.
<Mason.D.Rowell-1 at ou.edu>wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> Use your actual specific humidity and divide by the saturation specific
> humidity (multiply by 100%). This should be accurate enough, though you
> should use mixing ratio in place of specific humidity for both. Saturation
> specific humidity is ~ .622*es/p, with es given by the integrated CC
> equation (which will depend on temperature only) and p the atmospheric
> pressure at the level of interest. That shouldn't be too hard to code.
>
>

Opengrads includes the satvap(T) function, see
http://opengrads.org/doc/udxt/libbjt/

    Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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