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calculation and importance
- In climate: Relation between temperature and humidity

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Teh Climate Physics Group at UC Berkeley - Accurate Expressions for the Dewpoint and Frost Point Derived from the RankineKirchhoff Approximations.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 22, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Frost and Remote Sensing an Overview of Capabilities.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 14, 2024
	Add new Web site: U.S. Department of Energy - Accurate expressions for the dew point and frost point derived from the Rankine-Kirchhoff approximations.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 29, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of Washington - Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Frost Point Capabilities.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Sep 28, 2016
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen	Feb 23, 2010
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998