Antarctic Ozone from TOMS: August 15, 2002, to September 29, 2002
Scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have confirmed the ozone hole over the Antarctic this September is not only much smaller than it was in 2000 and 2001, but has split into two separate "holes"
An animation of the stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica, as measured by Earth Probe TOMS from August 15, 2002, to September 29, 2002. Red and yellow denote regions of high ozone and dark blue denotes regions of low ozone.
Stratospheric ozone for September 24, 2002
Stratospheric ozone for September 29, 2002
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, September 30, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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Total Ozone [Earth Probe: TOMS]
ID: 299
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