Ozone depletion

The best Ozone depletion overview can be found on the ozone link-page from the Ozone Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme (mirror).
A good alternatiev are the ozone links from EPA

Overviews

• Another large overview
• Antarctic Ozone depletion including the
• very well documented Frequently Asked Questions (mirror site)
• CIESIN Ozone Home Page, e.g.,
  • Ozone bibliography
  • Ozone resources
• Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health
• SOLIS: Stratospheric Ozone Law, Information & Science
• Selection of sites by Strandberg
• EPA and Ozone Depletion ; mirror site
• Ozone Secretariat of UNEP

Beginners guides

• Overview for the non-specialist at CIESIN
• primer on ozone depletion by the environmental citizenship
• WWW tour by Owen Garrett
• Pictures and principles including some basic data
• NASA factsheets on Ozone depletion
• Greenpeace Ozone Campaign
• Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) Index. e.g., Numbering System for CFCS, HCFCS, and Halons
• Question and Answers on Halons and their substitutes
• Impacts of a Projected Depletion of the Ozone Layer by Frank R. de Gruijl
• UV-B radiation in New Zealand

Policy and Law

• Montreal Protocol (mirror) at Switserland For example, the text of the treaty (mirror)
• Atmosphere/ climate/ outer space treaties at SEDAC/CIESIN
• Meetings Index
• Policy page at CIESIN
• Report of the Seventh Meeting (Vienna 1995)
• ozone protection provisions of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990
• US Stratospheric Ozone Protection Framework at EPA (including title VI of the Clear Air Act)

Data

Dutch: zie ook data-onderdeel van Praktische kennismaking milieu-informatie op Internet (alt.)

• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) home page. Also an European mirror site
• SBUV-2 Total Ozone from Climate Prediction Center
• Antarctic ozone data from the Alfred Wegener Institute
• current state of the Antacrtic ozone layer from SOLIS Web site
• Nitrous Oxide And Halocarbons Division (NOAH)
• Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Mid-latitude Experiment (SESAME)
• datasets at British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), for example:
  • Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
  • Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE)
• Ozon images at Reading, UK
• Global UV Monitoring Page
• Thickness of the ozone layer at Uccle, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
• Ozone page of KNMI

Electronic journals

• British Antarctic Survey Ozone Bulletin
• Global Change
• NASA press releases
• Ozon Bulletin from the World Meteorological Organization
• Ozone Action News: To subscribe to OAN by E-mail, send the one line message:
  subscribe ozone-action-news Your_Name
  To: listproc@ozone.org

© Darco Jansen 23-12-97