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STAR / SMCD / SPB Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV/2) Project - Links

The following sites will give insight into other ways that ozone can be monitored and understood.

Ozone Imagery

SBUV/2 Total Ozone Imagery
TOVS Total Ozone Imagery
NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)- Good site for O3 imagery, data, and multimedia.

Ozone Science and Data

NOAA's Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) . A source for SBUV/2 operational data and GOME-2 operational ozone data processed with the Version 8 algorithm.
NASA's Space Based Measurements of Ozone and Air Quality Site - Total Ozone, reflectivity, aerosol, UV, and several chemical species data available.
European Space Agency's (ESA) GOME instrument
World Ozone and Ultraviolet Data Centre (WOUDC) - Surface measurements of ozone from around the world.

Ozone Education & Background Information

The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science of Ozone Depletion web page
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) Ozone Hole Page. Info on the ozone hole's past and its current status