elv2pres: Elevation to pressure
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elv2pres

R Documentation

Elevation to pressure

Description

Calculates atmospheric pressure for a given elevation.

Usage

elv2pres(
  z,
  kG = 9.80665,
  kL = 0.0065,
  kMa = 0.028963,
  kPo = 101325,
  kR = 8.31447,
  kTo = 288.15
)

Arguments

`z`	Elevation, m.
`kG`	Gravitational acceleration, m/s^2. Default: 9.80665 (Allen, 1973)
`kL`	Adiabatic lapse rate, K/m. Default: 0.0065 (Allen, 1973)
`kMa`	Molecular weight of dry air, kg/mol. Default: 0.028963 (Tsilingiris, 2008)
`kPo`	Standard atmosphere, Pa. Default: 101325 (Allen, 1973)
`kR`	Universal gas constant, J/mol/K. Default: 8.31447 (Moldover et al., 1988)
`kTo`	Base temperature, K. Default: 288.15 (Berberan-Santos et al., 1997)

Value

Atmospheric pressure for the given elevation, Pa.

References

Allen, R.G., Pereira, L.S., Raes, D. and Smith, M., 1998. Crop evapotranspiration-Guidelines for computing crop water requirements-FAO Irrigation and drainage paper 56. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 300(9), p.D05109. Available: http://www.fao.org/docrep/x0490e/x0490e07.htm

Berberan-Santos, M.N., Bodunov, E.N. and Pogliani, L., 1997. On the barometric formula. American Journal of Physics, 65(5), pp.404-412. doi: 10.1119/1.18555

Moldover, M.R., Trusler, J.M., Edwards, T.J., Mehl, J.B. and Davis, R.S., 1988. Measurement of the universal gas constant R using a spherical acoustic resonator. Physical review letters, 60(4), p.249. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.249

Tsilingiris, P.T., 2008. Thermophysical and transport properties of humid air at temperature range between 0 and 100 C. Energy Conversion and Management, 49(5), pp.1098-1110. doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2007.09.015

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