# 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

**Wikidata**: [Q548132](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q548132)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_height)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/scale-height


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)