humidity index

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humidity index [hyü′mid·əd·ē ‚in‚deks]

(climatology)

An index of the degree of water surplus over water need at any given station; it is calculated as humidity index = 100s/n,wheres(the water surplus) is the sum of the monthly differences between precipitation and potential evapotranspiration for those months when the normal precipitation exceeds the latter, and wheren(the water need) is the sum of monthly potential evapotranspiration for those months of surplus.

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