February 17th 04, 09:43 AM
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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.
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