Standard atmosphere may refer to:
- A standard reference value for air pressure:
- Atmosphere (unit), an approximation of the value at sea level
- Atmospheric pressure, other reference values
- A model of how atmospheric pressure varies with altitude:
- The U.S. Standard Atmosphere, a series of models that give values for pressure, density, and temperature over a range of altitudes
- The International Standard Atmosphere (ISA), an international standard model, defining typical atmospheric properties with altitude, at mid-latitude
Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or atmosphere:
“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice—there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”
—Thomas S. Kuhn (b. 1922)
“We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed ... In this fresh, breezy atmosphere ... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)