It would be useful if one could calculate the thickness of layers of the full atmosphere in one go, i.e., if thickness_hydrostatic_from_relative_humidity() and thickness_hydrostatic() would (optionally) not only return the full thickness (i.e., between bottom and top) but instead all the layer thicknesses individually.
To explain more technically: The current return value (the full thickness) would then be the top layer of the cumsum of the individual thicknesses.