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Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Tom, >Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 9:59:19 CDT >From: Tom Whittaker <tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Emmerson) >Subject: Re: dimensionality In the above message, you wrote: > Maybe. If I have pressure (mb) and multiply it by wind speed (kts), > I'd like to get the result in joules/cm2 Well... you'll get it in joules/m^2 -- but you can convert it to anything you want. If you have a preferred display quantity for that kind of quantity (e.g. "joules/cm2") then the system should be able to automatically convert to it. > ...and also know that I'm dealing with is "energy per unit area." There's no way, at present, to ask a Unit for its dimensionality. Such a capability could be easily added, however. -------- Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
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