 Dobson unit (source code)

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A unit of atmospheric column abundance. One <Dobson unit> corresponds to approximately $2.69\times10^{16}$ <molecules> per square centimetre. Multiplying a column decrement by an <absorption cross section> gives its contribution to a monochromatic optical-depth decrement.

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