New
ozone-measuring programme at Ushuaia
24 April 2008-The Argentine Meteorological Service, in
collaboration with the Spanish Meteorological Agency and the government
of the province of Tierra del Fuego, initiated a programme on 16 April
2008 to monitor atmospheric ozone from the global WMO Global Atmosphere
Watch station at Ushuaia, Argentina (55°S and 68°W). At the same time,
an ozonesonde was launched from Marambio station on the Antarctic
Peninsula (64°S and 57°W). The new programme will provide information
about the impact of the Antarctic ozone hole on the southern part of
South America.
The data from Ushuaia
will be transmitted to the WMO World Ozone and UV Data Centre in
Toronto, Canada, and will be available to the global community of ozone
scientists and other interested parties. The data will also be used in
the WMO Antarctic ozone bulletins, published from August to November.
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