Meteor-3/TOMS observations of the 1994 ozone hole

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1995-12-01

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Herman, Jay R., Paul A. Newman & David Larko. "Meteor-3/TOMS observations of the 1994 ozone hole." Geophysical Research Letters 22, no. 23 (01 Dec, 1995):3227-3229. https://doi.org/10.1029/95GL02850.

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The development of the 1994 springtime (September–November) Antarctic ozone hole was observed by the Meteor-3/TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer) to result in a very low minimum ozone value, 90±5 DU (Dobson Units) on September 28, 1994. During late September and early October, the region of extremely low ozone values was centered on the geographical pole between 85°S and 90°S. The geographical extent of the ozone hole region, the area within the 220 DU contour, reached a maximum during the first week in October with an elliptical area covering 24 × 10⁶ km², reaching to the southern tip of South America. This approximately matched previous area records. After the maximum area was reached in early October, the 1994 ozone hole region was very similar to the 1993 ozone hole throughout the remainder of the month. The area of low temperatures (<196 K), where polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) can form and heterogeneous chemistry is significant, has not increased over the past 16 years. During this period, the large trends in the area and minimum ozone amounts of the Antarctic ozone hole do not appear to be related to atmospheric temperature trends.