Moisture

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moisture

(Or moisture content.) In meteorology, a general term usually referring to the water vapor content of the atmosphere, or to the total water substance (gaseous, liquid, and solid) present in a given volume of air.

In climatology, moisture refers more specifically to quantities of precipitation or to precipitation effectiveness.
See humidity;
see also soil moisture.


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