RadioSonde (version 1.4)

PWV: 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.

See Also

getsonde, td.to.q

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Example 1

data(ExampleSonde)
######
# OK, now find precipitable water vapor.

PWV(ExampleSonde)

# }