ppmv\text{ppmv}

part per million by volume (moisture)

Humidity ratio

Trace moisture is sold by volume, and one part per million by volume converts to a humidity ratio of 0.621945 × 10⁻⁶ kg/kg. The 0.621945 is the ratio of the molar mass of water to that of dry air, the same constant that appears throughout psychrometrics.

Watch out: This is the dilute linearisation. The exact relation is W = 0.621945 x/(1 − x) with x the mole fraction, so the factor here is right to about a tenth of a percent up to 1000 ppmv and progressively wrong above that. Do not use it at room humidity, where x is around 0.01 and the error reaches a full percent; use a psychrometric calculation instead. It also assumes the carrier gas is air, since the 0.621945 carries air's molar mass in it.

1 ppmv\text{ppmv} 0.000621945 g/kg\text{g/kg}

One part per million by volume (moisture) in every humidity ratio unit

1,000part per billion by volume (moisture) (ppbv)
621.945microgram per kilogram of dry air (μg/kg)
1part per million by volume (moisture) (ppmv)this unit
0.621945milligram per kilogram of dry air (mg/kg)
0.00435361grain per pound of dry air (gr/lb)
0.000621945gram per kilogram (g/kg)
6.21945e-07kilogram per kilogram (kg/kg)
6.21945e-07pound per pound of dry air (lb/lb)