rh2sh: Relative humidity to specific humidity

In insol: Solar Radiation

Description

Computes specific humidity from given relative humidity, temperature and pressure.

Usage

rh2sh(RH, tempk, Pz, ice)

Arguments

RH	Relative humidity (%).
tempk	Air temperature in K
Pz	Air pressure in hPa
ice	Whether over water or ice surface (0,1).

Value

Specific humidity (kg/kg).

Author(s)

Javier G. Corripio

References

Brutsaert, W.: 1982, Evaporation into the atmosphere : theory, history, and applications, Reidel, Dordrecht. 1984 edition.

See Also

wvapsat

Examples

plot(250:300-273.15,rh2sh(50, 250:300, 1013, 0),xlab='Temperature [C]', 
ylab='specific humidity',
main='Specific humidity for RH=0.5 and varying temperature')

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