Enzyme unit SI unit, the enzyme unit is discouraged in favour of the katal, the unit recommended by the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1978 and officially adopted in 1999. One katal is the amount of enzyme that converts 1 mole of substrate per second, so The enzyme unit should not be confused with the international unit (IU); although it is true that both measure chemical activity and that for many enzymes 1 U = 1 IU (because for many enzymes the existing U was adopted as the newer IU), international units can be defined for the biologic activity of
Dobson unit Dobson unit should eventually be replaced by an appropriate SI unit and that the unit mmol m-2 was the most convenient and least cumbersome option. It expressed the hope that this unit would eventually supplant the Dobson Unit. However, as of March 2017, there is little evidence that this has occurred; for example the Dobson unit is still used by NASA and by the World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Center in their reporting of total ozone amount. NASA uses a baseline value of 220 DU for ozone. This was chosen as the starting point for observations of the Antarctic