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ERA5-Land: calculating relative humidity

Added by Diego Araujo 7 months ago

Dear all,

I'm trying to calculate the RH according to this paper: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099740

In CDO, I am applying the equation as follows (t2m and d2m are already merged into the same file):

cdo expr,'rh=100*(exp((17.67d2m)/(243.5+d2m))/exp((17.67t2m)/(243.5+t2m)))' t2m_d2m_2017.nc rh_2017.nc

The issue is that the RH values are very high throughout the day, consistently above 70%. I'm certain that this does not occur in the area. Perhaps I'm applying the equation incorrectly?

Thank you in advance for your help :)


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RE: ERA5-Land: calculating relative humidity - Added by Diego Araujo 7 months ago

Solved!

The data was in Kelvin, but was supposed to be in Celsius for this equation.

Thank you. :)

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