Antarctic Ozone (1 Aug-27 Nov 2003)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Antarctic Ozone from TOMS: August 1, 2003 to November 27, 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. This animation is an update to animation ID 2809 -- this version includes about 2 additional months of data.

Antarctic ozone hole from August to November 2003

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TOMS/TOMS

  • Animation ID

    2988

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/12/01

  • Scientist

    Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Ozone

  • Keywords

    Antarctic, ozone

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2003/08/01 - 2003/11/27

  • Animation Type

    Regular