USGS Scientific-Investigations Report 2010–5201 - Empirical Models of Wind Conditions on Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

Conversion Factors, Datums, and Abbreviations and Acronyms

Conversion Factors

Inch/Pound to SI

Multiply	By	To obtain
Length
centimeter (cm)	0.3937	inch (in.)
meter (m)	33.28	foot (ft)
kilometer (km)	0.621	mile (mi)
Velocity
centimeter per second (cm/s)	0.3937	inch per second (in/s)
meter per second (m/s)	33.28	foot per second (ft/s)
meter per second (m/s)	2.2369	mile per hour (mi/h)

Datums

Horizontal coordinate information is referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83).

Elevation, as used in this report, refers to distance above the Upper Klamath Lake Vertical Datum (UKLVD), which is used by the Bureau of Reclamation for reporting the elevation of Upper Klamath Lake.

Abbreviations and Acronyms


ADCP	acoustic Doppler current profiler
AgriMet	Pacific Northwest Cooperative Agricultural Weather Network
ANN	Artificial Neural Networks
BIAS	Bias or Mean error
HIST	Historical Model
MARS	Multivariate Adaptive Regressive Splines
NASH	Nash-Sutcliffe error
NCDC	National Climatic Data Center
NOPPM	Un-filtered data
PPM1	Pre-processing (filtering) method 1
PPM2	Pre-processing (filtering) method 2
USGS	U.S. Geological Survey

First posted October 27, 2010

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U.S. Geological Survey
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Portland, Oregon 97201
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