HALOE Measurements of HCl in the Stratosphere (1992-1998)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

HALOE Measurements of HCl in the Stratosphere (1992 - 1998)

HALOE was designed to carefully monitor hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen chloride, byproducts of CFC destruction in the stratosphere. HALOE operates by observing the absorption of infrared radiation by these molecules against the rising and setting sun . When UARS was first launched, measurements by HALOE showed that CFC byproducts were still increasing in the stratosphere. But the newest HALOE measurements now show that CFC by-products are no longer increasing. UARS has shown that the stratosphere is starting to respond to the international ban on CFC manufacture.

Hydrogen chloride in the stratosphere as measured by HALOE from 1992 to 1998

Metadata

  • Sensor

    UARS/HALOE

  • Animation ID

    830

  • Video ID

    SVS1999-1001

  • Start Timecode

    1:29:16:06

  • End Timecode

    1:30:56:00

  • Animator

    Barbara Summey

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1999/04/09

  • Scientist

    Mark Schoeberl (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Chlorofluorocarbons

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    1992-1998

  • Story URL

    stories/UARS/index.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular