Second-foot day

From Glossary of Meteorology



second-foot day

The volume of water represented by a flow of 1 cubic foot per second for 24 hours; equal to 86 400 cubic feet.

This is used extensively as a unit of runoff volume or reservoir capacity and is closely equivalent to 2 acre-feet.


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