total ozone column

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• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer — The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) is a satellite instrument for measuring ozone values. Of the five TOMS instruments which were built, four entered successful orbit. Nimbus 7 and Meteor 3 provided global measurements of total column… …   Wikipedia

• Ozone depletion — Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded (September 2006) Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth s… …   Wikipedia

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• Ozone layer — The ozone layer is a layer in Earth s atmosphere which contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3). This layer absorbs 97–99% of the Sun s high frequency ultraviolet light, which is potentially damaging to the life forms on Earth.[1] It …   Wikipedia

• Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion — The Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion is a sequence of reports sponsored by WMO/UNEP. The most recent is the [http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/ozone 2006/ozone asst report.html 2006 report] .The reports were set up to inform the… …   Wikipedia

• Dobson ozone spectrophotometer — Original Dobson Spectrometer, using photographic plates The Dobson spectrophotometer, also known as Dobsonmeter or Dobson spectrometer, is the earliest instrument used to measure atmospheric ozone. It was invented in 1926 by Gordon Dobson.[1] A… …   Wikipedia

• Atmospheric Chemistry Observational Databases — Over the last two centuries many atmospheric chemical observations have been made from a variety of ground based, airborne, and orbital platforms and deposited in databases. Many of these databases are publicly available. All of the instruments… …   Wikipedia

• Dobson unit — The Dobson unit (DU) is a unit of measurement of atmospheric ozone columnar density, which is dominated by ozone in the stratospheric ozone layer. One Dobson unit refers to a layer of ozone that would be 10 µm thick under standard… …   Wikipedia

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