hectobar

A hectobar is a unit of pressure. It is equal to 100 bars. The bar itself is a metric unit of pressure commonly used in meteorology and industry. One bar is defined as exactly 100,000 pascals, which is the SI unit of pressure. Therefore, a hectobar is equivalent to 10,000,000 pascals, or 10 meganewtons per square meter. This unit is not as commonly used as the bar or the pascal in most scientific contexts. However, it can occasionally be encountered in specialized fields or older literature. To put it into perspective, standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is approximately 1.01325 bars, or just over 0.01 hectobars. The hectobar represents a significant amount of pressure. For example, it is roughly 100 times the pressure of Earth's atmosphere at sea level. Its use is generally superseded by kilopascals or megascals when dealing with such high pressures.