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[AWIPS #REC-190985]: Moisture transport magnitude units?



>I've been playing around with the moisture transport magnitude product from
>the GFS model. However, it says that the units are "ktsg/Kg". After a few
>Google searches, I still can't figure it out. Do you know what units this
>data is presented in by any chance?

Hello

The units are knots * grams/kilogram. Sometimes it can also be seen in 
grams/kilogram * meters/second. 
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Moisture-flux-at-850-hPa-vector-units-10-2-g-kg-1-m-s-1-and-moisture-flux_fig11_257796932


Thanks,

Tiffany Meyer
AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
UCAR-Unidata

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Ticket ID: REC-190985
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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