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For many practical purposes, the air of the lower atmosphere can be considered as a mixture of perfect gases; in the present context these may conveniently be assumed to be dry air of constant composition and water vapor.
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Brutsaert, W. (1982). The Lower Atmosphere. In: Evaporation into the Atmosphere. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1497-6_3
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