Validation of Stratospheric Ozone
From NASA My NASA Data
Over the past several decades, the levels of ozone in the atmosphere have received a lot of media and government attention. Major focus has centered on the hole or area of depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic and Antarctic poles in winter months, which has been found to be due to human emissions of chlorofluorocarbons. This lesson uses SAGE III satellite data and ozonesonde data captured over Thule, Greenland on October 26, 2002. Of major importance is how well the satellite compares to the ozonesonde data. The graph, accessed via the links section, shows how SAGE III corresponds to the ozonesonde data. For this lesson, only data from the stratosphere (above 20 km) are used. The lesson provides an example case study of a validation of NASA satellite data with atmospheric sounding observations of atmospheric ozone levels using either graphing calculators or Microsoft Excel.
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DLESE Catalog ID: MYND-000-000-000-102
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Contact: Dr Lin Chambers