Question

In our atmosphere, there is normally 3-5% of water vapor present. The water vapor content rarely exceeds 5%. Further, while technically there can be 0% water vapor in the atmosphere, in reality this is extremely, extremely unlikely. This being said, please graph the Virtual Temperature correction for air from 0% water vapor concentration to 5% water vapor concentration.

Answer 1

So considering that the fact that the Virtual Tempreature is usually calculated using the formula -

TV = (1+0.61 * W)T

Where TV represents the Virtual Temperature

W represents the water vapour content and T in the temperature of the place.

Therefore by the above mentioned formula in excel we can hypothetically calculate the Virtual temperature of the place while keeping the temperature of the place constant. We need to change the water vapor content of the atmosphere.

We need to be careful about the thing that all the things are in SI units so as to ensure the authenticity of the whole operation. We would consider the temperature as 15 degree celsius.

Temperature	Water Vapor (%)	Virtual Temperature
15	1	24.15
15	2	33.3
15	3	42.45
15	4	51.6
15	5	60.75

This is very much visible that as the water vapor content is increased the virtual temperature keeps on increasing even if the temperature of the place is kept constant.

This is the following graph that has been obtained by plotting the following data in excel-