altimeter to slp (fwd)

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• Subject: altimeter to slp (fwd)
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:03:09 -0600 (MDT)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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Date: 24 Mar 2005 15:16:49 -0700
From: Steve Chiswell <chiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: altimeter to slp

Robb,

In PR_PALT,

the constants are:
GAMUSD = 6.5 degrees per km
TMCK = 273.15
To = T at 1000mb = 288.15K
RDGAS = 287.04 = gas constant for dry air
GRAVTY = 9.80616 m s-2

Chiz