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Why relative humidity damages artifacts

Relative humidity plays a critical role in the preservation of cultural heritage. This episode breaks down how moisture in the air interacts with temperature, why fluctuations are especially dangerous ...
This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Have you ever wondered why 75% humidity in the summer feels ...
Abstract: Relative humidity (RH) and temperature sensing is a vitally important research field due to its various applications in the environmental, industrial, and agricultural monitoring. In this ...
When Floridians talk about extreme weather, hurricanes dominate the conversation. Each season brings updates on storm tracks, ...
Humidifiers add moisture to the air and can help with dry skin, hair, and scalp. They may reduce nasal congestion and help with sinus issues by adding moisture that breaks up mucus. Maintaining indoor ...
While summer’s humidity is taking a break, the air in winter can be cold and dry. Dry, itchy skin, congestion, scratchy throats, and little static shocks from everything you touch have replaced the ...
While high temperatures will remain in the 80s, lower dew points will make it feel more comfortable and less oppressive. The cooler, drier air is tied to a low-pressure system off the coast that is ...
An early season cool front promising South Florida a respite from wetness is attached to a bubble of low pressure forecast to become a potent nor’easter as it scours the coast from the Carolinas ...
Relative humidity measures how much moisture is in the air compared to how much it could hold at a given temperature. It is simply the dew point temperature divided by the air temperature, times 100.
Introduction: Climate and environmental changes pose significant threats to human metabolic health; however, the specific effects of individual environmental factors on metabolic diseases remain ...
Often times during hot and humid stretches of the summer season you’ll hear a meteorologist refer to the dew point temperature, but not so much the relative humidity. And that may have you thinking ...
Abstract: A long-period fiber grating (LPFG) based on a micro taper structure with gelatin coating for relative humidity (RH) measurement is proposed and demonstrated. Periodic micro-tapers are formed ...