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2018 plastic balloon launch from the South Pole – Photo by Johannes Werthebach (Ice Cube)<\/p><\/div>\n
From NOAA\u2019s Global Monitoring Division headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, Patrick Cullis keeps up with communications on behalf of the team working at the South Pole.\u00a0 Science Techs Cherisa Friedlander and Sabrina Shemet prepare the instruments, launch the balloons, and collect the data while in Boulder Patrick processes the data and creates plots and profiles of ozone and meteorological data.<\/p>\n
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Checking out ozonesondes before launch at the Balloon Inflation Facility at the South Pole Station.\u00a0 Cherisa Friedlander<\/p><\/div>\n
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The plots show how much ozone was detected (red line) at every altitude as the balloon carrying the small instrument travels high in to the stratosphere to over 100,000 feet before bursting and falling back to the surface on a parachute.\u00a0 Using \u201cbaseline\u201d profiles collected in July and August (green line) before the destruction period begins, we are able to see where and how much ozone has been destroyed by the free chlorine activated by the long-absent Sun returning to the sky above Antarctica.\u00a0 The satellite plot on the right is an overhead view looking down on Antarctica.\u00a0 The purple are clearly shows the area affected directly by this destruction layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is an exciting time for the NOAA\/CIRES ozone team in Boulder and at the South Pole.\u00a0 In Boulder, every morning starts with the question, \u201cAny news from the South Pole?\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019re all eager to know if the latest balloon launch went well and if we are starting to see any signs of the ozone… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-06 22:26:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}