RelHum: Relative Humidity (RH)

In FAO56: Evapotranspiration Based on FAO Penman-Monteith Equation

Relative Humidity (RH)

Description

RelHum returns the value of relative humidity.

Usage

RelHum(e_a, e0T)

Arguments

e_a	Optional. A numeric scalar that denotes the actual vapour pressure [kPa].
e0T	A numeric scalar that denotes the saturation vapour pressure at a specific air temperature [kPa].

Details

This is a function to calculate the relative humidity.

Value

The function returns the value of the relative humidity as a numeric scalar.

Reference

Allen, R. G., Pereira, L. S., Raes, D., & Smith, M. (1998). Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements - FAO Irrigation and drainage paper 56. Fao, Rome, 300(9), D05109.

See Also

SatVP.

Examples

RelHum(e_a = 0.7, e0T = 0.9)

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