scale height
distance over which a quantity decreases by a factor of e; for a planetary atmosphere, the distance over which pressure drops by that factor
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scale height
Summary
scale height ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (107 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- scale height's subclass of is recorded as distance[2].
- scale height's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06cm0q[3].
- scale height's defining formula is recorded as H = \frac{kT}{Mg}[4].
- scale height's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as scale-height[5].
- scale height's ISQ dimension is recorded as \mathsf{L}[6].
- scale height's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1429[7].
- scale height's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[8].
- scale height's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 1489048[9].
- scale height's Wolfram Language quantity ID is recorded as ScaleHeight[10].
- scale height's quantity symbol is recorded as H[11].
- scale height's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C1489048[12].
Why It Matters
scale height ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (107 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]