Sentences with phrase «saturation specific humidity»
The capacity of the atmosphere to hold water vapor (saturation specific humidity) increases exponentially with temperature.
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/ Not exact matches
They are going out of their way to explain they are trying to use what would be a real gas law as a reference instead of the ideal gas laws, plus an approximation of water vapor based sole on T which produces an estimated saturation pressure that can be super saturated or have a difficult to estimate RH or specific humidity.
Water vapor is thereafter transported by the large - scale circulation, which conserves the specific humidity (the ratio of the mass of water vapor to the total mass in a unit volume of air), except during subsequent saturation events, when loss of water occurs instantaneously to prevent supersaturation [Ed: that would be a fancy way of saying it rains?].