Andy Ross writes: > Actually, I'm fairly certain that high altitude phenomena tend to > "smooth out" pressure differences down below, so in fact the relative > difference between pressures at the flight levels should actually be > less than that at sea level. Maybe you could try a factor that > asymptotically approaches 1.0 as altitude increases? I don't have > much background in meteorology, though.
Nor do I. I think I'll try a straight factor for now -- I'm sure that the amount of smoothing has to do with the height of the tropopause, which varies considerably from the poles to the equator and from even season to season. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
