Ozone layer -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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Introduction

Location in Earth’s atmosphere

Ozone creation and destruction

The layers of Earth's atmosphere. The

yellow line shows the response of air
temperature to increasing height.
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Ozone damage on the leaf of an English

walnut (Juglans regia L.).
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ozone: hole

Changes in the size of the ozone hole from

October 1979 to October 1990.
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ozone depletion

Antarctic ozone hole, September 17, 2001.

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Southern Hemisphere ozone hole

Two bar graphs depicting the maximum

ozone hole size and the minimum ozone
coverage (in Dobson units) of the Southern
Hemisphere ozone hole, 1979–2014.
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ozonesonde

Researchers launching a balloon carrying an

ozonesonde, an instrument that measures
ozone in the atmosphere, at Amundsen-
Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.
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