User talk:Bobblewik/units of pressure
Units of pressure
[edit]mb/mbar
[edit]I noticed the edit war that you are in on the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season page regarding the symbol for millibar. Actually both are acceptble symbols (the millibar page itself doesn't even say one is prefered over the other) and mb is much more common in U.S. meteorology, that being the reason that the page uses mb. --Holderca1 11:19, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
- Get the NWS to go SI and use kilopascals (kPa) like Environment Canada does, and you won't have anything to argue about. Gene Nygaard 12:21, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
- It does not seem like an edit war to me. As far as I could see, there was only one edit specifically changing 'mbar' to 'mb' but I did not examine all edits. The symbols for units are defined at:
- http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/outside.html (US NIST)
- http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter4/table8.html (SI authority))
- I have no objection to this being discussed somewhere. Bobblewik 20:17, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
- It does not seem like an edit war to me. As far as I could see, there was only one edit specifically changing 'mbar' to 'mb' but I did not examine all edits. The symbols for units are defined at: