Ozone layer, is it disappearing?

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Ozone layer, is it disappearing?
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Protects against Ultraviolet radiation

• UV-radiation can give you skin cancer
• There is
• UVA, UVB and UVC
• UVC most dangerous
• UVA least dangerous
• UVC stopped by ordinary oxygen
• UVB stopped by Ozone
• UVA not stopped

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Ozone hole only over Antarctica
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The ozone miracle

• Ozone is created when UVC collide with ordinary
  oxygen. UVC is completely stopped by oxygen
• Oxygen is created when UVB collide with ozone.
• Ozone will never disappear

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Ozone in Sweden
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Ozone variation
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Ozone in the tropics
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The strongest UV radiation
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Ozone layer globally
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Important facts about ozone

• Thinnest at equator
• Thickest at the northern hemisphere
• Only ozone hole around south pole
• Most ozone is produced at the equator and
  transported by the winds to the north and south.

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Ozone layer will never disappear in the future.

• We have stopped dangerous HFC-gases that made the
  ozone layer thinner.