Internet
Resources on Ozone depletion
TOMS.
The official website at Goddard Space Flight Center for information,
data and images from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
instruments.
Image resources are at the bottom of this page. For sources of printed
information on ozone depletion, click on Resources
in print
Reference
archives
1.Envirolink
Click on the Ozone folder. Note in particular the FAQ's by rparson(Robert
Parson, Univ.of Colorado), they are by far the best tutorials
on Ozone depletion on the entire net!
2.NOAA has written up several research summaries on
History and overview of Ozone shield,
Stratospheric Ozone and
Tropospheric Ozone ; all written at a laymans level.
3. Earthwatch Radioscripts on Ozone :Earthwatch ph# is (608)263-3063,
and I have found them to be quite helpful in giving further information
and contacts used in their broadcasts.
4.
NSF index this is the National Science Foundation's search index;
type in 'ozone' and hit the enter key.
5.
Galaxy directory service for EINET Contains a wide assortment
of articles on different aspects of the depletion problem and the
remedies for it; not necessarily the best place to start if you
are just starting to learn about the problem. 7.
Ozone lesson-plans from the University of Kansas Nice summaries
of lesson plans which teach about the Ozone problem. You can download
details of these lessons if you have Claris works.
9.
CIESIN (Consortium for International Earth Science Information Networks)
homepage this file has a nice summary of many the various protocals
and international meetings that have been conducted in order to
combat ozone depletion.
Ozone-hole
Pictures
*They're
very pretty but personally I don't find them that informative. The
exception is Dr.Bowman's Black-n-White 'quicktime' animation of the
Antarctic Vortex, and that is mostly because he clarifies much of
what you are looking at with one-page text lead-in to his animation.
Hasler & Chesters also have a nice explanation of how 'false colors'
are used to clarify the locations of different concentrations of colorless
ozone gas.
Animation of changes in the Anarctic Vortex This has both Dr.Bowman's
file and a color file by Fritz Hasler and Dennis Chesters at the
Goddard Space Flight Center. The actual animation requires you to
use a'Quicktime' program to run it. Failing that, the text explaination
is still good reading.
Color
animation of the seasonal changes in the Anarctic Ozone holeThis
comes from the University of San Diego; while the actual aniamationis
an MPEG file the cover page has some small yet pretty pictures.
And
of course there are many images of the Ozone hole that are on paper
rather than on the screen. For sources of printed information, click
on Resources in print
Several
other interesting articles
The
effect of clouds is altering the amount of radiation that strikes
the earth and Modeling
the effect of clouds are technical articles which deal with
the role of clouds in determining how much radiation reaches the
earth. As greenhouse gases, and CFC's are very potent greenhouse
gases, warm the earth; more water evaporates and more clouds form.
Newsnets carry a lot of noise and a few gems. I would recommend
against consulting the newsnets for ozone information because well-supprorted,
unsupported and down-right-weird ideas all appear to carry equal
weight. Browsers get the impression that no facts are certain and
no one can be trusted in the field of Ozone depletion research,
which is not true. Much of the ozone chatter is carried by the newsgroup
sci.environment but keep in mind that only the previous weeks chatter
is carried, and no service that I know of archives the stuff. Actually
there are several good nets on general K-12 education type stuff,
my personel favorite is Educational
Resources by Chris Beaumont at NASA Ames Research Center.
Author: Brien Sparling
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