{"id":24,"date":"2016-09-13T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone2016\/?p=24"},"modified":"2016-09-14T18:42:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T18:42:05","slug":"how-we-communicate-with-the-south-pole-team-and-the-information-we-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/2016\/09\/13\/how-we-communicate-with-the-south-pole-team-and-the-information-we-get\/","title":{"rendered":"How we communicate with the South Pole team and the information we get"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Irina Petropavlovskikh, CIRES and NOAA scientist, from Boulder, September 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is the hot time for the NOAA\/CIRES ozone team in Boulder and at the South Pole. In Boulder, every\u00a0day starts with the question,\u00a0“Any news from South Pole?”\u00a0We’re all eager to know if the latest sonde launch went well, and if we’re starting to see any signs of the ozone depletion over the South Pole.<\/div>\n
From Boulder, Patrick Cullis keeps up with communications on behalf of the\u00a0team working at the South Pole (Johan Booth and Refael Klein), with details of balloon launches and data analyses. Patrick\u00a0plots profiles of ozone and temperature and we look at his\u00a0graph. The graph shows how much ozone was detected at various heights as\u00a0the balloon (with the instrument attached) traveled high into the stratosphere (to about\u00a0100,000\u00a0feet), then\u00a0burst and fell back to the surface.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The green line in the left plot represents the pre-depletion ozone levels, while the blue line is the actual reading from a recent balloon flight. Activate chlorine high in the atmosphere has eaten away large chunks of the ozone peak.
The right plot shows the temperature profile along with the blue region where temperatures are cold enough for Polar Stratospheric Cloud (PSC) formation. PSCs form very unique ice crystals with the ability to unlock chlorine from normally stable molecules. Regions with high concentrations of PSCs typically result in higher levels of ozone destruction.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And how do we know if the\u00a0ozone is already showing signs of depletion over the South Pole? First, we compare those recent profiles to previous balloon profiles from\u00a0launches in July and August,\u00a0before the ozone depletion season started. Next, we’ve been launching balloons since the 1980s (and even a few before that), and Bryan Johnson (the project’s PI) has a database that he uses to compare today’s\u00a0\u00a0profile to all profiles launched on that day, going back 30 years. This helps us understand\u00a0how this year looks compared to previous years.<\/div>\n
It’s a slow process, but\u00a0each day the ozone profile looks more and more like someone took a bite out of the nice bell shape of the stratospheric ozone layer. We won’t know how badly ozone was depleted over the South Pole this year until the end of September or the beginning of October. It’s a journey, and we would like to take you with us as we\u00a0discover what happens with ozone this year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Irina Petropavlovskikh, CIRES and NOAA scientist, from Boulder, September 13 This is the hot time for the NOAA\/CIRES ozone team in Boulder and at the South Pole. In Boulder, every\u00a0day starts with the question,\u00a0“Any news from South Pole?”\u00a0We’re all eager to know if the latest sonde launch went well, and if we’re starting to… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2016\/09\/2016_09_05_Ozone-vs-Pre-Depletion.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 15:31:37","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\/24","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}