There is also a considerable gap in the otherwise dense network of global
ozone measurement stations here.
Not exact matches
Among them were the
measurements of atmospheric
ozone at the UK's Halley research
station in Antarctica.
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.
The researchers compared results from a model called GFDL - AM3 to
ozone measurements from monitoring
stations over the course of the last 35 years, from 1980 to 2014.
In Utqiagvik, Alaska (formerly known as Barrow)-- one of a handful of
stations where NOAA measures Arctic
ozone levels — there's been a 12 percent increase in average
ozone levels since
measurement began 45 years ago, Cooper said.
Impact: Replacing old
ozone analyzers at existing
stations and adding new sites on the west and east coast of the U.S. would increase the reliability and scope of surface
ozone measurements (which may be impacted by industrial activity in Asia).