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Standard sea level temperature and pressure
From: Marc Bernstein
Date: 2003 Jan 13, 14:41 -0500
From: Marc Bernstein
Date: 2003 Jan 13, 14:41 -0500
For the purposes of correcting sextant altitudes standard sea level temperature and pressure (STP) are 10C and 1010mb. I am curious if anyone knows how these were selected as in the meteorological and aviation world the standard values are 15C and 1013.25 mb.
