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Dobson unit
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English
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.
Pronunciation
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Noun
en Q740585 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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