Antarctic Ozone (1 Aug - 23 Sep 2003)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Antarctic Ozone from TOMS: August 1, 2003 to September 23, 2003

The 2003 Antarctic ozone hole was the second largest ever observed, according to scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The Antarctic ozone 'hole' is defined as thinning of the ozone layer over the continent to levels significantly below pre-1979 levels. Ozone blocks harmful ultraviolet 'B' rays. Loss of stratospheric ozone has been linked to skin cancer in humans and other adverse biological effects on plants and animals. The size of the 2003 Antarctic ozone hole reached 10.9 million square miles on September 11, 2003, slightly larger than the North American continent, but smaller than the largest ever recorded, on September 10, 2000, when it covered 11.5 million square miles.

Video resolution animation of 2003 Antarctic ozone

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TOMS/TOMS

  • Animation ID

    2809

  • Video ID

    SVS2003-0019

  • Start Timecode

    01:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:01:13:02

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, Marte Newcombe

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/09/23

  • Scientist

    Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Ozone

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2003/08/01 - 2003/09/23

  • Pao ID

    G03-054

  • Animation Type

    Regular