NASA Ozone Watch: Latest status of ozone
4 days ago · View the latest status of the ozone layer over the Antarctic, with a focus on the ozone hole. Satellite instruments monitor the ozone layer, and we use their data to create the images that depict the amount of ozone.
Nasa Ozone Watch: Ozone hole facts
What is the Ozone Hole? The ozone hole is not technically a “hole” where no ozone is present, but is actually a region of exceptionally depleted ozone in the stratosphere over the Antarctic that happens at the beginning of Southern Hemisphere spring (August–October).
Ozone Hole Continues Healing in 2024 - NASA Earth Observatory
Oct 30, 2024 · During the peak of ozone depletion season from September 7 through October 13, the 2024 area of the ozone hole ranked the seventh smallest since recovery began in 1992, when the Montreal Protocol, a landmark international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals, began to take effect.
What happened to the world's ozone hole? - BBC
Their discovery, the thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica, came to be known as the ozone hole. As news of the discovery spread, alarm rippled around the world.
2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA …
Nov 1, 2023 · The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA. At 10 million square miles, or 26 million square kilometers, the hole ranked as the 12th largest single-day ozone hole since 1979.
Ozone depletion - Wikipedia
The ozone hole is usually measured by reduction in the total column ozone above a point on the Earth's surface. This is normally expressed in Dobson units; abbreviated as "DU". The most prominent decrease in ozone has been in the lower stratosphere.
2023 ozone hole ranks 12th largest on record, find NOAA and NASA
Nov 1, 2023 · The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size at 10 million square miles (26 million square kilometers) on September 21, which ranks as the 12 th largest since 1979, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NOAA and NASA.
World of Change: Antarctic Ozone Hole - NASA Earth Observatory
This series of satellite images shows the ozone hole on the day of its maximum depth each year from 1979 through 2019. In the early 1980s, scientists began to realize that CFCs were creating a thin spot—a hole—in the ozone layer over Antarctica every spring.
NASA Ozone Watch: Latest status of ozone
Dec 6, 2024 · View the latest status of the ozone layer over the Arctic. Satellite instruments monitor the ozone layer, and we use their data to create the images that depict the amount of ozone. Click any map image to bring up a new page with a high-resolution map.
NASA SVS | 2023 Ozone Hole Update - NASA Scientific …
Nov 1, 2023 · The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size at 10 million square miles, or 26 million square kilometers, on Sept. 21, which ranks as the 16th largest since 1979, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA.