Back Alçada d'escala Catalan Skalenhöhe German بلندای مقیاس Persian Skaalakorkeus Finnish Hauteur d'échelle French Altezza di scala Italian スケールハイト Japanese 높이척도 Korean Schaalhoogte Dutch Skalahøgd NN
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).