View all of the Arctic Hemisphere daily maps of total ozone for September 2016. Satellite instruments monitor the ozone layer, and we use their data to create the images that depict the amount of ozone.
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Data source
The data for this month are from the OMI instrument (KNMI / NASA) onboard the Aura satellite. They are the OMTO3d that have been processed in a manner similar to the TOMS data from earlier years.
Missing areas (bad orbits and polar night) are filled from an atmospheric model. The GEOS-5 FP data are produced by the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5. This is a system of models integrated using the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF). The GEOS-5 DAS integrates the GEOS-5 AGCM with the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) atmospheric analysis developed jointly with NOAA/NCEP/EMC.
September 2016
The false-color view of the monthly-averaged total ozone over the Arctic pole. The blue and purple colors are where there is the least ozone, and the yellows and reds are where there is more ozone.
