Dobson unit

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Dobson unit

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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.

noun Dobson units

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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@misc{dobson_unit_2026,
  title = {Dobson unit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dobson%20unit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}