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This chapter follows the tradition of classical textbooks on meteorology and presents relevant parameters for meteorology, including measurements in dry and moist air, water, and soil, as well as cloud physical quantities. Tables present the pressure, temperature, and humidity dependency of these parameters. Furthermore, soil physical quantities and calculation procedures are presented to calculate parameters of the solar and Earth system and of the time system.

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The authors acknowledge Dr. Rainer Feistel for helpful discussions and his support in the application of the TEOS-10 SIA library.

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  2. Modeling Department, TROPOS Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany

    Olaf Hellmuth

  3. Soil Physics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Bernd Huwe

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Foken, T., Hellmuth, O., Huwe, B., Sonntag, D. (2021). Physical Quantities. In: Foken, T. (eds) Springer Handbook of Atmospheric Measurements. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52171-4_5

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