DOBSON UNIT

The 'Dobson unit' (DU) is a unit of measurement of atmospheric ozone, specifically ozone in the stratospheric ozone layer. One Dobson unit refers to a layer of ozone that would be 10 µm thick under standard temperature and pressure.^[1] For example, 300 DU of ozone brought down to the surface of the Earth at 0 °C would occupy a layer only 3 mm thick. One DU is 2.69×10¹⁶ ozone molecules per square centimetre, or 2.69×10²⁰ per square metre.
This is 0.447 millimoles of ozone per square metre.
The Dobson unit is named after Gordon Dobson, who was a researcher at the University of Oxford. In the 1920s, he built the first instrument to measure total ozone from the ground, now called the Dobson ozone spectrophotometer.

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