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Plutonium

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Scale Height
« on: July 21, 2015, 03:32:26 AM »
Can anyone explain what this parameter shows???

DiamondMiner10

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Re: Scale Height
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2015, 02:49:33 PM »
Can anyone explain what this parameter shows???
I'm not sure what you mean. Screenshot please?

Plutonium

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Re: Scale Height
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2015, 10:50:22 PM »
There is a parameter in Climate tab called "Scale Height". It is locked but dynamic. What does that parameter show?

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Re: Scale Height
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2015, 12:00:28 AM »
"Scale height is a general way to describe how a value fades away and it is commonly used to describe the atmosphere of a planet. It is the vertical distance over which the density and pressure fall by a factor of 1/e."
http://astro.unl.edu/naap/scaleheight/sh_bg1.html

"For planetary atmospheres, scale height is the increase in altitude for which the atmospheric pressure decreases by a factor of e."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_height

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Re: Scale Height
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2015, 09:41:06 AM »
"Scale height is a general way to describe how a value fades away and it is commonly used to describe the atmosphere of a planet. It is the vertical distance over which the density and pressure fall by a factor of 1/e."
http://astro.unl.edu/naap/scaleheight/sh_bg1.html

"For planetary atmospheres, scale height is the increase in altitude for which the atmospheric pressure decreases by a factor of e."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_height
Whoa, I did not know that