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Hi- This is Don. > The GRIB2 - TABLE 4.2-0-1, PARAMETERS FOR DISCIPLINE 0 CATEGORY 1 > (Meteorological products, moisture category) Section 0 , Octet 7 = 0, > say you ca n to use indistinctively units for evaporation and potential > evaporation: > > http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/grib2/grib2_table4-2-0-1.shtml > > 6 > Evaporation > kg m-2 > EVP > > 40 > Potential Evaporation > kg m-2 > PEVAP > > 41 > Potential Evaporation Rate > W m-2 > PEVPR > > How can I change the units in the Software IDV, Wm/2 to Kg/m2? The W/m2 is a rate of evaporation and is not convertable to the kg/m2 which would be evaporation (essentially mm). There is no way to do the physical conversion from W/m2 to mm/s since it implies a mass conversion from l to mm of water. However, you could use the formula Miscellaneous->Change Unit to change the unit. For the name, you can put whatever you want. For the unitSpec, put in mm/s. This will not attempt to do the conversion, but will instead replace the real unit with whatever you put in. After that, you could use the Change Unit on your display to convert to mm/day or whatever compatible unit you want. Don Murray Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: YTE-634929 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed