An instrument called GOMOS — Global
Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Star — will look at a star through the atmosphere and measure how much of its light is absorbed by ozone.
Not exact matches
NOAA measurements at South Pole station
monitor the
ozone layer above that location
by means of Dobson spectrophotometer and regular
ozone - sonde balloon launches that record the thickness of the
ozone layer and its vertical distribution.
Air
monitoring by researchers in 2000 found levels of volatile organic compounds — highly reactive
ozone precursors such as benzene, known as VOCs — were 10 to 100 times higher than what had previously been estimated.
Pallas is one of the sites of the Finnish network for
monitoring the concentrations of mercury and other heavy metals, benzo (a) pyrene,
ozone and other air pollutants, as required
by the European legislation on ambient air quality.
Among them will be a device called the
Ozone Monitoring Instrument, or OMI (pronounced oh» - mee
by project scientists).
The images were produced
by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who work in concert with others at the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center to process data from
ozone -
monitoring instruments on the EOS - Aura satellite.
The measurements were made from 1979 — 2003
by NASA's Total
Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments, and from 2004 — present
by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute's
Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) that flies on NASA's Aura satellite.
Pallas is one of the sites of the Finnish network for
monitoring the concentrations of mercury and other heavy metals, benzo (a) pyrene,
ozone and other air pollutants, as required
by the European legislation on ambient air quality.
Continued
monitoring of
ozone and
ozone - depleting substances is essential for verification of
ozone layer recovery as expected
by about 2050, which hinges on the complete elimination of atmospheric
ozone - depleting substances.
Its twice - daily five - day forecasts of global atmospheric composition supplement the IFS
monitoring of temperature, air pressure and humidity
by including chemical species such as
ozone, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, aerosols and greenhouse gases.
Dust - storm source areas determined
by the Total
Ozone Monitoring Spectrometer and surface observations