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Scale height
Distance over which a quantity decreases by a factor of e / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In atmospheric, earth, and planetary sciences, a scale height, usually denoted by the capital letter H, is a distance (vertical or radial) over which a physical quantity decreases by a factor of e (the base of natural logarithms, approximately 2.718).
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