Other machines use massive amounts of energy to run a fan to pull air into the machine and extract what water it can, with no regard for the actual
dew point of the air in which it is operating.
During most of the summer, this temperature is below
the dew point of the outside air, even up north.
When you see condensation on the bathroom mirror, you know
the dew point of the water vapor in the air is equal to or higher than the surface temperature of the mirror.
Warm desert air might have
a dew point of +40 F while the air in Greenland has
a dew point of maybe -40 (C or F same).
On 8 July 2003 an air temperature of 42 degrees, combined with
a dew point of 35 degrees resulted in a heat index 68.6 C. http://www.aljazeera.com/weather/2012/08/201281891957105737.html
Not exact matches
More to the
point: Why should the government dictate the dietary choices
of SNAP recipients when the rest
of us are free to sling Little Debbies and Mountain
Dew into our carts?
He
points to data showing that plants from treated seeds can «sweat out» minute quantities
of the insecticide into morning
dew, a beverage popular with bees.
In total, the study examined 19 environmental factors, including
dew point, cloud cover, rainfall, wind chill, wind speed, barometric pressure, temperature, lunar day, and several measures
of air quality.
At which
point, the glint
of the sun on the morning
dew caught the attention
of her complex posterior lateral motion - detecting eyes and her anterior median telephoto - like swivel eyes also started detecting something.
The
dew -
point sensor enables specifically targeted cooling and, if required, reheating
of the inflowing air, meaning that the air conditioning operates even more economically.
In addition, users can configure the parameters
of each view to include humidity, precipitation, sunrise / sunset,
dew point, wind chill, visibility, and moonrise / moonset.
GLASS marks the first time Lin's glass marble work has been publicly displayed in New York and follows Folding the Chesapeake (2015), which was installed for the reopening at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Also on view will be
Dew Point 11 (2007), a multi-unit floor piece comprised
of clear blown glass discs resembling drops
of water.
Separating out humidification from cooling is common practice any time you want close control
of temp and
dew point.
Furthermore, there have been independent measurements / analysis
of dew -
point temperature from radiosondes in the Tropics.
The CAPE and
dew -
point temperature are independent measurements that can give us clues about cyclone trends, but they are also a potential indicator
of climate change.
Not everyone is convinced
of course, but I wonder if graphing
dew point temperatures would show something more definite?
When it reaches a level high enough to cool it to it's «
dew point» the water vapour condenses out in the form
of clouds and rainfall and the Latent Heat
of Condensation is released into the upper part
of the atmosphere to accelerate the escape
of radiant energy to space.
At the
dew point clouds condense out and the latent heat
of condensation releases more energy which drives the convection higher.
A «standard» wall (cladding, tyvek, osb, 2 x4 / 6, gypsum) would have the OSB below the
dew point for those months for most (Ok > 50 %)
of the time.
Does anyone know why the only surface humidity field from the ERA - Interim dataset is 2m
dew point and not the more commonly used fields
of specific humidity and / or relative humidity (which are also available as pressure level fields)?
«The combination
of an actual temperature
of 115 F (46 C) and a
dew point temperature
of 90 F (32 C) pushed the apparent temperature to 163 F (73 C) Friday afternoon local time.
It's affected by amount
of heating and affected by humidity: «When the air is saturated with water vapor (at its
dew point), the moist adiabatic lapse rate (MALR) or saturated adiabatic lapse rate (SALR) applies.
A Contrail is exhaust from an aircraft engine cooling very rapidly below the
dew point temperature and condensing into a visible trail
of microscopic droplets.
On nearly windless nights, when the sky is clear and humidity is low, the temperature will drop to the
dew point which, if that
dew point is below freezing, will lead to bad and / or expensive things happening and absolutely zero sleep being had for thousands
of growers.
Off the west coasts
of the American continents in the trade - wind belts, upwelling
of cold subsurface water causes the overlying air to be cooled below its
dew point (the air temperature below which water vapour condenses as
dew), with the consequent widespread formation
of low, thick clouds.
If the temperature
of surface air drops below its
dew point, fog may result.
The relative humidity was 49 % and
dew point was 49 F at the time
of peak eclipse: 10:25 pm.
In an irony not appreciated except by building science geeks ventilation air in the summer months in most parts
of North America brings moisture into crawlspaces and deposits this moisture on surfaces that are below the ventilation air
dew point.
Next day, the sun would raise the temperature higher and pump more vapor into the air from Lake Michigan, so the
dew -
point was higher and part
of the added heat was retained.
Thus, the accumulation
of atmospheric carbon dioxide is a function
of the integrated
dew point (SSTs as proxies) differences between global sources and sinks.
That makes the surface
of the spray foam cooler, possibly even below the
dew point.
Applicability — all hygro - thermal regions except subarctic / arctic — in cold and very cold regions the thickness
of the foam sheathing should be determined by hygro - thermal analysis so that the interior surface
of the foam sheathing remains above the
dew point temperature
of the interior air (see Side Bar 2)
The car in the driveway radiates into the 3 K
of space, and, insulated by the still air around it, cools below the
dew point, gets a wet windshield, cools further, and the water on the windshield freezes.
The obvious example to use in explanation is the super-saturation
of water vapour well below the
dew point.
The boiling
point, freezing
point and
dew point are affected by the surface
of the container (or particle).
This is getting to be about the right time
of year, there will be 50 degree days that during the night the temp drops below the
dew point wringing water out
of the air which collects on the grass (but not bare surfaces), and under an ice cold sky turns to frost.
Dew point is a better measure
of what's happening with the humidity because it shows whether or not the actual number
of water vapor molecules changes over time.
I can think
of at least two cases: 1) radiation fog is caused by the surface radiating away energy and cooling enough to bring the temperature
of air lying above it down to the
dew point or below; 2) advection fog is caused by warmer (moist) air passing over a cooler surface.
The only way I know to confirm the source
of your moisture would be to monitor indoor, attic and outdoor temperature and absolute humidity (e.g.,
dew point) over some period
of days, ideally covering a period
of changing weather.
Given the radical swings
of both the attic floor and ridge
dew points (compared to outside and lower «conditioned» areas) and looking at the photo - I would guess that the amount and application
of open - cell foam is inadequate for this building.