atmos {formatdown}

Properties of standard atmosphere

Description

Table of atmospheric properties as a function of altitude, sea level to 1000 km.

Usage

data(atmos, package = "formatdown")

Format

Classes data.table and data.frame: 9 observations of 5 variables:

alt

Numeric, altitude (km)

temp

Numeric, air temperature (K)

pres

Numeric, atmospheric pressure (Pa)

dens

Numeric, air density (kg m^{-3})

sound

Numeric, speed of sound (m/s)

Source

Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers 9/e (1987) E.A. Avallone and T. Baumeister (ed.), "Table 4.2.2 International Standard Atmosphere", pp. 4-38, McGraw-Hill, NY.