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dew point: References & Edit History

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Modified link of Web site: Academia - Evaluation of models for the dew point temperature determination (PDF). Feb 25, 2025
Add new Web site: IOPscience - Environmental Research Letters - The relationship of atmospheric air temperature and dew point temperature to extreme rainfall. Nov 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Rochester Institute of Technology - Understand the Role of Dew Point. Aug 14, 2024
Add new Web site: NIST Technical Series Publications - The Use of Dew-Point Temperature in Humidity Calculations. Jul 05, 2024
Add new Web site: PennState - Department of Meteorology and atmospheric Science - What to Do With Dew Points. Apr 12, 2024
Add new Web site: American Meteorological Society - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences - Accurate Expressions for the Dewpoint and Frost Point Derived from the Rankine–Kirchhoff Approximations. Feb 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Evaluation of models for the dew point temperature determination (PDF). Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: LiveScience - What Is Dew Point? May 29, 2017
New article added. Nov 03, 2016
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