Data sheet

BMP183

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BST-BMP183-DS000-00 | Revision 1.0 | June 2012

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Barometric pressure [hPa]

Altitude in standard

atmosphere

3.7 Calculating absolute altitude

meters can be calculated with the international barometric formula:

Thus, a pressure change of ∆p = 1hPa corresponds to 8.43m at sea level.

Figure 5: Transfer function: Altitude over sea level – Barometric pressure

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altitude