The heat, combined
with low relative humidity and the chance for thunderstorms, is raising the risk of wildfires across parts of Alaska.
A reanalysis of data from past studies suggests that low absolute humidity —
not low relative humidity, the factor many scientists have studied — helps the virus survive and the flu spread.
Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns» health (temperature stresses and
low relative humidity also have effects).
Upsalite is for example found to absorb more water
at low relative humidities than the best materials presently available; the hydroscopic zeolites, a property that can be regenerated with less energy consumption than is used in similar processes today.
Newly published research by Indiana University scientists finds that
low relative humidity in the atmosphere is a significant, growing and often under - appreciated cause of plant stress in hot, dry weather conditions.
All it takes at that point is a day or two of extreme fire weather, and the main components are simple: strong winds and
very low relative humidity (RH).
«Now when you get into a hot, dry period with winds and
low relative humidity, it's ripe for fire,» Svoboda said.
When they incorporated aerosol soot into the simulations, the resulting haze even more dramatically enhaced solar heating, thereby further increasing temperatures and
lowering relative humidities.
Methods: The research group has previously shown that at
low relative humidity (RH), SOA particles evaporate much slower than assumed.
Conditions for the fire were nearly perfect, including light but steady winds around 10 miles per hour,
low relative humidity, and sunny skies.
Down here with the expansion of the hadley cell, a higher rate of evaporation and
lower relative humidity in the continental interior, it will be rather dry for crops.
The wood moves most on the south and the west exposures due to the effect of the sun heating the surface of the wood and
lowering the relative humidity at the woods surface.
The lower relative humidity and increased temperatures that would result from potential reductions in fog and low cloud cover could increase plant evapotranspiration rates, raise soil water deficits, and accelerate risks of forest fire.
During a dry winter, the reduction of aerosol concentrations in weekend days may overwhelmingly impact on the DTR through a direct effect, i.e. by increasing total solar irradiance near the surface and raising the daytime temperature and maximum temperature, and
lowering relative humidity.