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Vapour Pressure

Vapor pressure is a good measure of the total amount of water vapor in the air:

 

High actual vapor pressure -  indicates large numbers of water vapour molecules

Low actual vapor pressure - indicates small numbers of water vapor molecules

 

 

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* All information on this site has come from lecture notes and the associated course text books: 'Atmospheric Science: An introductory survey, 2nd edition, J. M. Hobbs and P. V. Wallace' and 'Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate and the Environment, 10th edition (International), C. D. Ahrens.' Some sections may have been rephrased and altered slightly but all content came from the above mentioned sources unless otherwise stated. 

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