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SMITHSONIAN METEOROLOGICAL TABLES 



Kilogram weight, 14 



Kilometer, conversion factors, 9, 10 



conversion to nautical miles, table, 101 

 conversion to statute miles, tables, 98-99 

 per hour, conversion factors, 11 

 conversion tables, 110-116 



Kilowatt hour, conversion factors, 14 

 equivalent in calories, 289 



Kinematic viscosity of air defined, 394-395 



Knots, conversion factors, 11 

 conversion tables, 110-116 



Lambert, conversion factors, 16 

 Lambert projection, scale variation, 485 

 Land, area in latitude belts, 484 

 Langley, conversion factors, 15 

 Lapse rate: 



pseudoadiabatic, ice stage, 324 

 water stage, 323 



temperature, conversion table, 30 

 Latent heat, sea ice, 405 



water, 343 

 Latitude, degree of, conversion factors, 9 



degree per day, conversion factors, 12 



length of one degree, 482 

 Latitudinal variation of Coriolis parameter, 



130 

 Length, conversion factors, 9 



conversion tables, 72-101 

 Lifting condensation level and condensation 



pressure, 328-330 

 Light, mechanical equivalent of, 16 

 Liter, 10 



Longitude, length of one degree, 483 

 Lumen, 15 

 Luminosity, 448-452 

 Luminous efficiency, 16 

 Luminous flux, 15 

 Lux, 15 



Manometers, English units, 139-163 



metric units, 164-199 



temperature correction, 138 

 Map projection, scale variation, 485 

 Mass, conversion factors, 12 



conversion tables, 108-109 

 Mean adjusted virtual temperature, 296 

 Mean free path of a molecule, NACA upper 



atmosphere, 283-284 

 Mechanical equivalent of heat, 289 

 Mechanical equivalent of light, 16 

 Melting point, sea water, 406 

 Mercator projection, scale variation, 485 

 Mercurial barometer correction, capillary, 

 135 



gravity, 200-202 



Mercurial barometer correction, 



temperature correction, English units, 

 139-163 



metric units, 164-197 

 Mercury, density, 4 



surface tension, 135 

 Meridian, length of one degree, 482 

 Meter, conversion factors, 9-10 



conversion to feet, tables, 94-95 

 Meter per second, conversion factors, 11 



conversion tables, 110-116 

 Metric ton, conversion factors, 12 

 Micron, conversion factors, 9 

 Mile, nautical : 



conversion factors, 9 



conversion tables, 100-101 

 Mile, statute : 



conversion factors, 9, 10 



conversion tables, 96-100 

 Miles per hour, conversion factors, 11 



conversion tables, 110-116 

 Millibar, conversion factors, 13 



conversion to inches of mercury, table, 

 38-50 



conversion to millimeters of mercury, 

 table, 59-71 

 Millilambert, conversion factors, 16 

 Milliliter, conversion factors, 10 

 Millimeter, conversion factors, 9 



conversion to inches, table, 79-91 

 Millimeters of mercury, conversion factors, 

 13 



conversion to millibars, 51-58 

 Minute, mean solar, 11 

 Minutes to decimals of day and hour, 106- 



107 

 Mixing entropy, moist air, 336, 338 

 Mixing ratio, definition, 347 



saturation, definition, 347 

 over ice, 306-307 

 over water, 302-305 

 Moist air, compressibility factor, 332-333 



equation of state, 391 



thermodynamic properties, 331-343 

 Molecular mean free path, upper atmos- 

 phere, 283-284 

 Molecular weight, dry air, water vapor, 289 



NACA standard atmosphere, altitude pres- 

 sure table, 273-274 



lower atmosphere, 263-267, 273 



upper atmosphere, 280-284 

 Nautical mile, conversion factors, 9 



conversion tables, 100-101 



definition, 2 



Ocean, albedo of, 442 



area in latitude belts, 484 



