Pure (fresh) liquid water has a density of about 1.000 kg/liter, or equivalently 1.000 g/cm3, or 1000 kg/m3 (1.000 metric tonnes), at 4.3°C and 1 atm pressure.
The units are often omitted, so the density of liquid H2O may be stated as simply "1.000".
Ice has a density of about 0.9167
Seawater has a density of about 1.027, and an average salinity of about 35 pptm = 35,000 ppmm = 3.5% by mass.
First year sea-ice has salinity of only about 4-6 pptm, because about 85% of the salt ie expelled when seawater freezes. The Dead Sea has a density of about 1.240 because it is nearly 10× as salty as seawater.
The density of water varies only slightly with temperature & pressure, but if you need more precision various online tables and calculators can give you nearly exact water densities for specific temperatures, pressures & salinities.
1 km = 0.621371 mile,
so 1 km3 (cubic kilometer, or cu-km) = 0.239913 mi3
1 GT = 1 gigaton = one billion tons = 109 tons (U.S. tons or "short tons," each 907.185 kg or 2000 lbs) 1 Gt = 1 gigatonne = 1 Pg = 1 petagram = 1015 grams = 1000 Tg = 1000 teragrams = 109 tonnes (metric tons, each 1000 kg or 2204.62 lbs) = 1012 kg = 1.1023 GT = the mass of 1 cubic kilometer of fresh water = the mass of 1.091 cubic km of ice = the mass of 0.240 cubic miles of fresh water = the mass of 0.262 cubic miles of ice 1 cubic mile of ice weighs 1/0.262 = 3.82 Gt
The Earth's atmosphere is variously estimated to have a mass of 5.1 to
However, atmospheric gas concentrations are customarily expressed in ppmv (parts-per-million by volume,
a/k/a molar fraction, µ mol/mol),
so to calculate the mass of one ppmv requires scaling according to the molecular weight of the gas in question.
(Note: if water vapor is ignored this is properly called the dry molar fraction.)
The average molecular weight of the Earth's atmosphere is 28.966 g/mole (≈29). So, for example: ↑
Carbon Dioxide:
That much CO2 contains (12/44)×3350 = 914 PgC. ↑
Methane:
Meltwater & sea-level:
Ocean heat content (OHC):
1,338,000,000 cubic-km = 1.338 × 109 km3 = 1.338E9 km3
(1.029 × 1.338) × 109 Gt = 1.377E9 Gt = 1.377E21 kg
-Dave Burton 3/28/2014, 8/18/2014, 5/10/2015, 12/9/2015, 12/13/2016, 2/3/2017, 6/25/2018, 12/23/2018, 1/23/2022, 3/18/2022
†IPCC AR5 WGI uses a slightly different figure: 2.12 PgC per ppmv (Prather et al, 2012).
‡which are the approximate current (2022) average atmospheric concentrations of the two gasses: 416 ppmv CO2 and 1.90 ppmv CH4.