PWV {RadioSonde} R Documentation

Precipitable Water Vapor

Description

Calculates precipitable water (in mm) up to minp (minimum pressure) using dew-point temperature (td) and temperature (temp) (both in degrees C).

Usage

PWV(sonde = NULL, press, td, temp, minp = 400)

Arguments

sonde Sonde data read in using getsonde function.
press Pressure (only used if sonde is NULL)
td Dew-point temperature (in deg C) (only used if sonde is NULL)
temp Temperature (in deg C) (only used if sonde is NULL)
minp Minimum Pressure

Value

single numeric value is returned.

Author(s)

Junhong Wang

See Also

getsonde, td.to.q

Examples

# Example 1
filename <- paste(.path.package("RadioSonde"),"data","ExampleSonde.txt",sep="/")
sample.sonde <- getsonde(filename)

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# OK, now find precipitable water vapor.

PWV( sample.sonde)
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