technical atmosphere

Convert to and from technical atmospheres to other major units of pressure

A unit of pressure equal to one kilogram-force per square centimeter. Symbol, at. One technical atmosphere is approximately 0.967841 standard atmosphere or exactly 98.0665 kilopascals.

According to the current national standard in the United States¹, the technical atmosphere is not to be used. Kilopascals should be used instead.

1. IEEE/ASTM SI 10™-2002.
American National Standard for Use of the International System of Units (SI): The Modern Metric System.
New York: IEEE, 30 December 2002.

See Section 3.3.3.