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precipitable water

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precipitable water [pri′sip·əd·ə·bəl ′wȯd·ər]
(meteorology)
The total atmospheric water vapor contained in a vertical column of unit cross-sectional area extending between any two specified levels, commonly expressed in terms of the height to which that water substance would stand if completely condensed and collected in a vessel of the same unit cross section. Also known as precipitable water vapor.


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Furthermore, integrated precipitable water computations (surface-300 hPa) reveal the event day column (1.
The Edmonton storm sounding had the highest Precipitable Water (PW) of 34 mm, similar to the Holden storm (30 mm), while the Pine Lake storm was the driest at 23 mm.
nbsp;water records from the surface to the 500-millibar level using data from 1973 to 1995 and found nominally significant (5 percent level) increases in precipitable water over most of North America with the exception of north-eastern Canada.
 
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