I have a sensor that measures temperature, relative humidity and air pressure.
All the formulas I could find for both absolute humidity and the dew-point only use the temperature and humidity values, never the pressure.
I wonder if that is because:
A) The relatively small pressure differences from 1atm that occur naturally (outside of artificial pressure vessels) have effects that are too small to be relevant for the realistically achievable measurement accuracy in usual settings. Or:
B) The relative humidity changes proportional to the air pressure in relation to the formulas for absolute humidity and dew point, so that it's effect is already considered through the relative humidity value. Or:
C) Nobody is as pedantic of getting the highest accuracy possible as me ;)
I consider A or B to be the more likely explanations, but I'd love to hear the input of more knowledgeable people on the point.
This question seems related: What law or formula discusses the relationship between pressure and dew point?
Reading this confirmed my suspicion that changing the pressure (&volume) of a given gas mixture containing water vapor will change it's dew point.
But I'm unsure if remeasuring temperature (which I believe would be raised by increased pressure) and relative humidity (unsure if and how that would change) would result in values that when used to calculate a fresh dew-point would accurately reflect the change caused by the new air pressure.
UPDATE: So I found this calculator: https://airpack.nl/tools/dew-point-calculator/ Not as informative as a formula would be, but playing around with it showed me that a change of just 50 mbar to a air-mixture with dewpoint 15°C will change the dewpoint by ~1°C - so option A) seems be much less likely to me now.
UPDATE2: I thought I should add the formula I'm currently using to calculate the dew-point:
let a = (17.67 * self.temperature_c) / (243.5 + self.temperature_c);
let b = (self.rel_humidity_pct / 100.0).ln();
(243.5 * (b + a)) / (17.67 - b - a)
