View all of the Antarctic Hemisphere daily maps of total ozone for February 1982. 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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Missing areas (bad orbits and polar night) are filled from an atmospheric model. MERRA is a NASA reanalysis for the satellite era using a major new version of the Goddard Earth Observing System Data Assimilation System Version 5 (GEOS-5). The Project focuses on historical analyses of the hydrological cycle on a broad range of weather and climate time scales and places the NASA EOSsuite of observations in a climate context.
A week begins with Sunday. Fainter images are shown in the previous and following months. Missing days are indicated with a plain gray globe.
Monthly averages (1979–2013)