specific humidity

noun

the ratio of the mass of water vapor in air to the total mass of the mixture of air and water vapor.

specific humidity

noun

the mass of water vapour in a sample of moist air divided by the mass of the sample

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“Both of our studies show that areas with low absolute/specific humidity and low temperatures are those that are experiencing significant community transmission,” Mohammad Sajadi of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, a co-author of a previous study, said via email.

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Its average specific humidity is already 10 percent higher than Dulles.

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Dew point is proportional to specific humidity.

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Through this, we calculated specific humidity, which is the mass of water in a volume of air.

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Dalziel and his co-authors set out to look at the role specific humidity levels—how much moisture there is in the air—play in flu transmission.