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Wet-bulbtemperatureis essentially the lowest skin temperature attainable by evaporative cooling at a given ambient temperature and humidity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is the thermodynamicwet-bulbtemperaturethat is plotted on a psychrometric chart.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The value indicated by a wet-bulb thermometer often provides an adequate approximation of the thermodynamicwet-bulbtemperature.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is due to heat rejection at or near the air'swet-bulbtemperaturerather than the higher, sometimes much higher, dry-bulb temperature.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For an accurate wet-bulb thermometer, thewet-bulbtemperatureand the adiabatic saturation temperature are approximately equal for air-water vapor mixtures at atmospheric temperature and pressure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As stated in another section, meteorologists and others may use the term isobaricwet-bulbtemperatureto refer to the thermodynamicwet-bulbtemperature.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cooling of the human body through perspiration is inhibited as thewet-bulbtemperature(and absolute humidity) of the surrounding air increases in summer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That's why its reading is fairly close to the thermodynamic (real)wet-bulbtemperature.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The user therefore has to interpolate from his measuredwet-bulbtemperatureto find the vapour pressure or relative humidity.
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At some point the water vapour in the air becomes saturated (and has cooled to the thermodynamicwet-bulbtemperature).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Wetbulbtemperatureis used as a metric since it takes air temperature and relative humidity into account.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To understand why this is, first consider the calculation of the thermodynamicwet-bulbtemperature.
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