Dobson unit

Dobson unit
(DU)
   a unit used in geophysics to measure the ozone in the atmosphere. One Dobson unit represents the amount of atmospheric ozone that would form a uniform layer 0.01 millimeter (10 micrometers) thick at standard temperature (0 °C) and pressure (1 atmosphere or 1013.25 millibars). The Dobson unit equals 10-5 atmo-meter. Under normal conditions, the atmosphere contains about 300 Dobson units of ozone, but this falls to 100 Dobson units or less in the "ozone holes" over the Earth's poles. The unit is named for the British physicist G.M.B. Dobson; in 1920 he invented a spectrometer to measure ozone concentrations from the ground.

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