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Dobson unit
in atmospheric chemistry
Unit sometimes used in the description of the total ozone in a column of air overhead. It is given as the thickness (in units of Math - ei or Math - ei) of that layer which would be formed by the total ozone in a column reduced to the pressure of Math - text and temperature of Math - text.
Source:
PAC, 1990, 62, 2167 (Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)) on page 2185
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Cite as: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, Electronic version, http://goldbook.iupac.org/D01827.html.
Transformed and rewritten from PDF version (entry http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/D01827.pdf)
by: Miloslav Nic, Jiri Jirat, Bedrich Kosata, ICT Prague, Czech Republic
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