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Figure2. Block diagram showing the relationship between root data, vapor pressure and the refractivity equation5. Results and discussionFigure 3 shows three examples of the pro<strong>file</strong>s obtained for temperature, relative humidity,atmospheric pressure and refractivity between 0 to about 12 km height.July 01, 1997 April, 02, 1996 August 23, 1995Figure3. Three pro<strong>file</strong>s of Temperature, Relative Humidity, Atmospheric Pressure and Refractivity. The Refractivity pro<strong>file</strong>s show thecontribution of dry air (red line) and humidity (green line)68The pro<strong>file</strong>s of refractivity are the first ones obtained for the Piura area and they agree<strong>with</strong> the typical variation that has been reported by Sato (1989). Refractivity due to dry air isalways bigger than one due to water vapor. The contribution to the pro<strong>file</strong> of refractivity of thedry air has an almost exponential variation while water vapor is only important until a certainheight (about 8 km). It seems that water vapor has a higher contribution for refractivity inboundary layer heights (0 to 2 km) and then decays until about 8 km where its contribution isalmost neglected.These results can be used to estimate the change of refractive index <strong>with</strong> height, knownas the refractive gradient dN/dh which causes radio signals bent downwards (Kingsley and

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