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Old February 17th 04, 09:43 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Jeremy Handscomb Jeremy Handscomb is offline
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Default Dam calculation

My mistake!

Jeremy

"Alex" wrote in message
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Jeremy Handscomb wrote:
When we consider the dam air values we are talking about the thickness

of
the layer between 1000mb and 500mb. It is measured in decimeters (tens

of
metres) such that 10dm (or dam) = 100m or the famous 528dm = 5280m (or

just
over 5 kilometres).



Actually *decameters* and the simbol is *dam*

dm is decimeter, that is 1/10 of a meter.