I've only seen large water volumes expressed in other countries as m3 (1000 L), sometimes referred to as "cumsecs" in newspapers and on the news for cubic meters per second when referring to flood water flow or water going over a dam wall.
Mike Payne On 17/04/2012, at 21:13 , John M. Steele wrote: > Well, it is 10^4 cubic meters, a break from the usual powers of 1000. > > To avoid long numbers (and large counting words, I would prefer to use one of > 1 dam³ = 10^3 m³ > 1 hm³ = 10^6 m³ > 1 km³ = 10^9 m³ > according to magnitude > > SAE TSB003 recommends the cubic dekameter for amounts of (irrigation) water > that in Customary would be expressed in acre-feet (1 acre-foot = 1.23348 > dam³), and does not permit the hectare-meter. I don't know whether the > hectare-meter is used in other countries. It's symbol would be confusing > without a middle dot, ha·m. > > --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Edward Schlesinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Edward Schlesinger <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:51604] Hectare- meter > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 7:47 PM > > Hi all; > In figuring out or reporting volume capacity is hectare-meter > redundant instead of cubic meter? > -- > Sincerely, > Edward B. > >
