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 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A scale height is a term for a distance over which a quantity decreases by a factor of e (the base of natural logarithms). The scale height is usually shown by a capital letter H.
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