Antarctic Ozone Hole (2003)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The 2003 Antarctic Ozone Hole

TOMS provides dramatic visual evidence of the annual growth and decay of the Antarctic ozone hole. The ozone losses over Antarctica result from reactions with the products of man-made chlorine and bromine compounds. Because of the tilt of the Earth's axis, continuous darkness falls at the South Pole from March 21 to September 21. The dark region in the middle of the July 1 total ozone picture is polar night, where TOMS cannot make measurements. Ozone losses are in blue. Beginning in August, returning sunlight reaches the edges of Antarctica providing chlorine and bromine compounds with energy to rapidly destroy ozone. By mid September, the ozone loss peaks, creating an ozone hole over Antarctic. For more information see www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1208toms.html

Antarctic ozone on 31 August 2003

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TOMS/TOMS

  • Animation ID

    2989

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/11/18

  • Scientist

    Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Ozone

  • Keywords

    Antarctic, Ozone

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2003/07/01, 2003/08/31, 2003/09/29, 2003/11/03

  • Animation Type

    Stills