Earth ID: 710

Average September Ozone Levels over Antarctica for 1979 to 1999

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on December 28, 1999

For more information and related images, please go to (the old archive of TOMS stories). Average October ozone levels over Antarctica for these years can be found in item 1395.

The evolution of the ozone hole over Antarctica as shown through measurements of average ozone for September for the years 1979 through 1999, excluding 1995. These measurements were made by the TOMS instruments on Nimbus-7, Meteor-3 and Earth Probe. Dark blue represent regions of low ozone and red represents regions of high ozone.

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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Data Used:

Earth Probe/TOMS/Total Ozone

September Averages 1996-1999

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Meteor-3/TOMS/Total Ozone

September Averages 1991-1994

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Nimbus-7/TOMS/Total Ozone

September Averages 1979-1992

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This item is part of this series:
Stratospheric Ozone

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Chemistry/Oxygen Compounds >> Ozone
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0