Dobson unit

noun

Dobson unit

noun

Etymology Named after Gordon Dobson, a researcher at the University of Oxford who in the 1920s built the first instrument to measure total ozone from the ground.

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A unit of measurement of the amount of a trace gas (typically ozone) in a vertical column through the Earth's atmosphere).

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