humidity coefficient

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humidity coefficient [hyü′mid·əd·ē ‚kō·i′fish·ənt]

(meteorology)

A measure of the precipitation effectiveness of a region; it recognizes the exponential relationship of temperature versus plant growth and is expressed as humidity coefficient =P/(1.07)^t, wherePis the precipitation in centimeters, andtis the mean temperature in degrees Celsius for the period in question; the denominator approximately doubles with each 10°C rise in temperature.

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