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AN: A11A-02 INVITED     [PDF]
TI: TOMS and the NASA Ozone Trends Panel
AU: * Rowland, F S
EM: rowland@uci.edu
AF: Donald Bren Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2025 United States
AB: In 1985, the measurements of total ozone over the Antarctic burst suddenly into the ongoing discussions of stratospheric ozone depletion and its possible causes in the spring (Halley Bay Dobson data) and the summer (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, TOMS). These were quickly followed by three scientific expeditions to the Antarctic--from the surface at McMurdo in 1986 and 1987, and by air from Punta Arenas, Chile, in 1987. The NASA Ozone Trends Panel came into existence under the direction of NASA's Bob Watson in December of 1986, and made its conclusions public in March, 1988. The data from TOMS on total ozone, and from the SBUV instrument on vertical ozone distribution, were the primary cause for the formation of the Ozone Trends Panel. These results combined with those from the other expeditions all played very significant roles in the conclusions drawn by the Panel, and by the scientific community. The TOMS data over Antarctica have become the accepted world-wide symbol for stratospheric ozone depletion.
DE: 0317 Chemical kinetic and photochemical properties
DE: 0340 Middle atmosphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting