Ozone Links

http://www.epa.gov/ozone The Science of Ozone Depletion-Within this area you'll find information about the science of ozone depletion, information about the regulatory approach to protecting the ozone layer, and information on alternatives to ozone-depleting substances, as well as information on a number of other topics

http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA TOMS -information, data, and images for all TOMS instruments, which provide global measurements of total column ozone on a daily basis. TOMS turns the mapping job over to OMI Production of Earth Probe TOMS real time data and products has been suspended effective January 1, 2006. All TOMS data prior to 2006 will continue to be available, but OMI data should be used in the future.

Aura (Latin for breeze) was launched July 15, 2004. The design life is five years with an operational goal of six years. Aura flies in formation about 15 minutes behind Aqua. Aura is part of the Earth Observing System (EOS), a program dedicated to monitoring the complex interactions that affect the globe using NASA satellites and data systems.

http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov

NASA Ozone Resource page

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/ozone_resource_page.html

The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), at Columbia University in New York City, is a division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Sciences Directorate and a unit of the Columbia University Earth Institute. Research at GISS emphasizes a broad study of global climate change.

The Center for Ozone Data & Information (CODI) Web Site at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth Sciences Atmospheric Composition Data & information Services Center (ACDISC). The purpose of this on-line information center is to enhance the support services we provide to our ozone research community. We've provided a number of resources here to help you in your research.

The Ozone Hole Watch web site, where you can check on the latest status of the ozone layer over the South Pole.

The mission of the NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory is: to discover and understand the chemical, dynamical and radiative processes that are important in the Earth's atmosphere, to improve NOAA's capability to predict its behavior.

http://www.al.noaa.gov

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/~dshindel/

Dr. Shindell's research is concerned with global climate change, climate variability, and Atmospheric Chemistry. He uses mathematical models of the atmosphere and oceans which run on supercomputers to investigate chemical changes such as the depletion of the ozone layer, climate changes such as global warming, and the connections between these two.

http://www.eumetsat.int About EUMETSAT The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites is an intergovernmental organisation based in Darmstadt, Germany, currently with 20 European Member States (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom) and 10 Cooperating States (Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and the Czech Republic).

EUMETSAT is operating the geostationary satellites Meteosat-8 and -9 over Europe and Africa, and Meteosat-6 and -7 over the Indian Ocean.

http://www.iisd.ca/ozone/mop19/anniversary.htm Full coverage of the 20th Anniversary Seminar of the Montreal Protocol “Celebrating 20 Years of Progress” . Also many other events.

The Earth Negotiations Bulletin is a balanced, timely and independent reporting service that provides daily information in print and electronic formats from multilateral negotiations on environment and development. It is published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), a non-profit organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The Earth Negotiations Bulletin began as the joint initiative of three individuals from the NGO community, who were participating in the preparations for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Johannah Bernstein, an environmental lawyer and Director of the Canadian Participatory Committee for UNCED (CPCU), Pamela Chasek, a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Langston James Goree VI "Kimo", a former UNDP programme officer and NGO activist from the Western Amazon, created the Earth Summit Bulletin in March 1992.

http://ozone.unep.org/index.shtml Ozone Secretariat - reports, publications, and press releases of the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol, as well as a wealth of other ozone related material.

The UNEP DTIE OzonAction Branch assists developing countries and countries with economies in transition (CEITs) to enable them to achieve and sustain compliance with the Montreal Protocol. With our programme's assistance, countries are able to make informed decisions about alternative technologies and ozone-friendly policies. http://www.uneptie.org/ozonaction/about/index.htm

http://www.teap.org The Web Site of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol. The Montreal Protocol, administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is the international agreement to preserve the Stratospheric Ozone Layer that protects the earth from harmful radiation. This site provides technical information related to the alternative technologies that have been investigated and employed to make it possible to virtually eliminate use of the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons that harm the ozone layer.

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/jds/ Jonathan Shanklin British Antarctic Survey- This page points to the latest information on BAS ozone measurements and information about Antarctic weather.

NSF Polar UV Monitoring Network The National Science Foundation (NSF) Ultraviolet (UV) Monitoring Network was established in 1987 by the NSF Division of Polar Programs in response to serious ozone depletion reported in Antarctica. Biospherical Instruments installed the first instruments in 1988 and has operated the network since then. The network is providing data to researchers studying the effects of ozone depletion on terrestrial and marine biological systems. Network data is also used for the validation of satellite observations and for the verification of models describing the transfer of radiation through the atmosphere.

http://www.temis.nl

TEMIS aims to compute and deliver global concentrations of tropospheric trace gases, and aerosol and UV products derived from observations of nadir-viewing satellite instruments such as GOME, SCIAMACHY and (A)ATSR. TEMIS is part of the Data User Programme (DUP) of the European Space Agency (ESA).Within the TEMIS project, long-term data sets will be generated for ozone, UV, aerosols and several of the trace gases mentioned. Advanced retrieval techniques, chemistry transport modelling and data assimilation techniques will be used to derive high-quality tropospheric products based on the mesaurements of SCIAMACHY and GOME. These data sets will be made freely available through a user-friendly interface.

http://www.temis.nl/protocols/O3global.html

http://bascoe.oma.be/index.html The Belgian Assimilation System of Chemical Observations from ENVISAT (BASCOE ) is an operational service providing chemical analyses and forecasts for the stratosphere from the assimilation of chemical observations made by dedicated instruments onboard ENVISAT.

http://eosdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/ATM_CHEM/ Upper Atmosphere Data Support Web Site at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Here you will find data, information, and resources about the Earth's upper atmosphere; the region from the stratosphere and up. Please visit the Goddard DAAC homepage for other Earth science data and information.

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/ATM_CHEM/ozone_atmosphere.html

http://auc.dfd.dlr.de/ngong/ozonehole.html The ATMOS User Center (AUC)-The ATMOS User Center (AUC) is a service of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) German Aerospace Center (DLR) .
ESA, the European Space Agency, has appointed DFD as the German Processing and Archiving Facility/Center for the European environmental satellites ERS-1, ERS-2, and ENVISAT-1. This involves operating the ERS-2 GOME (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment) data processor and developing processors for SCIAMACHY (Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography), MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding), and the ocean color sensor MERIS (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer). In addition, the data from GOMOS (Global Ozone Measurement by Occultation of Stars), to be processed at the Finnish Meterological Institute (FMI), will be distributed using DFD's infrastructure.

http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/index.html Ozone Hole Tour University of Cambridge, UK follows the discovery of the ozone hole and the resulting science and research on the phenomenon.

http://www.ozone-sec.ch.cam.ac.uk/ The European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit

http://exp-studies.tor.ec.gc.ca/e/index.htm The Experimental Studies Division (ARQX) of the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) is part of Environment Canada and is located in Toronto. ARQX comprises four main areas of research interest: Space Studies, Ozone and UV Radiation Monitoring, Solar Radiation Studies and Field Experiments which include the management of the Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory, Eureka, Nunavut in the high Arctic. ARQX also houses the WMO/GAW World Ozone and UV Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC), and participates in the Middle Atmosphere Initiative .

http://exp-studies.tor.ec.gc.ca/cgi-bin/selectMap?lang=e Environment Canada's Select Ozone Maps

http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ozwv/ozsondes/spo/ The Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/envsc/theseo.html THESEO, the Third European Stratospheric Experiment on Ozone, is the European response to understand ozone depletion over Europe.

http://www.atm.amtp.cam.ac.uk/people/efs20/index.html Emily Shuckburgh -Centre for Atmospheric Science Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge, UK

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/ NOAA National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center (CPC)

http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/MET/Neumayer/ozone.html The Alfred Wegener Institute Germany's leading institute for polar and marine research

http://www.nilu.no/projects/cozuv/Default.htm COZUV (Coordinated Ozone and UV project) is a joint Norwegian project within stratospheric ozone and UV research. It started in January 1999 and runs through 2002. The main objectives are to gain increased understanding of the processes that lead to ozone loss in the Arctic and at middle latitudes and to understand how changes in the ozone layer affects the amount of UV radiation that hits the ground.

http://www.nilu.no/projects/nadir/o3hole More information on the ozone hole in Antarctica

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Ozone This is a resource module for teachers and students interested in the ozone layer.

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/chemistry Research in atmospheric chemistry at GISS includes near-term issues such as air quality and ozone depletion but is primarily focused on the longer-term linkages between atmospheric chemistry and global climate.

http://see.gsfc.nasa.gov/edu/SEES/strat/class/S_class.htm Stratospheric Ozone An Electronic Textbook with low- and high-resolution graphics and review questions

http://www.niwa.co.nz National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research New Zealand’s leading provider of atmospheric and aquatic science