Wet Bulb Formula Excel

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Wet Bulb Formula Excel

I believe dew point and wet bulb temperature are the same. They're both defined as the
temperature at which the water vapour is saturated. So if you have dewpoint you're there.
Unless somebody can correct me.

To take an example (approx figures) at 30°C and RH 60% - saturated vapour pressure = 40
mb. Actual pressure of the vapour = 60%*40 = 24 mb. Temperature at which saturated
vapour pressure is 24 mb = 21°C, = dewpoint.

If you do want to put it on XL, saturated vapour pressure as function of temperature (°C) is
given to a good approximation by Pv = A*e(B*T/(T+C)) where A = 6.105 mb, B = 17.074, C =
234.011. Multiply by the RH to get the actual pressure of the vapour. Then rearrange the
equation to give T in terms of Pv and that's the dewpoint. Strictly speaking the figure is
slightly high as it ignores the fall in actual pressure of the vapour (proportional to absolute
temperature by the usual gas law). You could iterate to get closer, but for the sort of RH
likely in weather data (40 - 80% ?) it doesn't make much difference.

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