The TOMS website maintains links to informative pages throughout the Internet. Although the TOMS team is the principle focus of this site, there are a number of other sites around the 'Net that provide excellent atmospheric science information. This page is, by no means exhaustive and the links on this page represent just a fraction of the information available. However, ONLY NASA links carry an endorsement by NASA, GSFC or the Laboratory for Atmospheres. If there is a link that will broaden what is offered here, please send an e-mail and it will be evaluated for inclusion in a future site up-date.

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Stratospheric Ozone, the online textbook takes an extremely indepth look at apects of ozone, form An Introduction to Stratospheric Ozone, to Radiation and the Atmosphere, to Pollution of the Stratosphere, and Modeling, Assessments, and Trend Prediction

The Usenet FAQ on ozone depletion has lots of good information. So does The Centre for Atmospheric Science at Cambridge University, UK (take their Multimedia Ozone Hole Tour).

The EPA's Stratospheric Ozone Home Page includes info on U.S. regulations dealing with ozone depletion. Also includes explanations of the UV Index forecast over the US, ozone myths, aerosols in the stratosphere, and ozone depletion processes.

SOLSE(Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment) took the first horizontal look at column ozone in 1997. This demonstration instrument proved that an ozone profile can be measured using limb-scattered light and has been proposed for future missions. SOLSE was developed by 916's Radiometric Calibration and Development Facility (RCDF).

The vertical distribution of ozone has been monitored by the Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV) instrument since 1978.

Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) SBUV/2 instrument can be obtained from this site. The temporal data coverage is from 1985 to the present from four satellites: NOAA-09 (1985 - 1998), NOAA-11 (1989 - 1994, 1998 - Present), NOAA-14 (1996 - Present), and NOAA-16 (2000 - Present).

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) has an excellent site devoted to their stratospheric ozone products. At NCEP's Products: Stratosphere there are links to SBUV/2 data, TOVS ozone analysis, a UV index, global temperature information and more. It is a very useful sites. NOAA also has an excellent site on stratospheric ozone which goes into specifics about our stratosphere.

TOMS is used to study tropospheric ozone, also. A method has been developed to allow TOMS to retrieve time-averaged Tropical Tropospheric Ozone (TTO) column amounts. 13-15-day averaged TTO maps on a 1 degree latitude by 2 degrees longitude grid for a 14-year period in the Nimbus 7/TOMS record, 1979-1992.

SHADOZ (Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes) is designed to validate TOMS and TTO measurements through a series of balloonsonde launches and by coordinating additional sondes in some cases, and by providing a central archive location.

Official homepage for tropospheric ozone (TTO) derived from "cloud slicing" - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 916

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The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Code 916 is the Laboratory for Atmospheres and offers a number of web services to advance the study of atmospheric science. The Lab FAQ List contains information about Ozone Research and the Lab's related research work. The Glossary of Terms, in its current form, is extremely basic. If you encounter terms you don't understand while at any 916 website, please feel free to let us know and you may see them in future updates.

The Goddard Home Page contains the latest news, pictures and information about work of the Center. This link provides access for other Hubble, NGST, SoHo and all other programs which have Goddard involvment. However, for a more direct route to GSFC Sites, a list of Websites by Directorates is provided.

The Goddard DAAC is the source for the data produced by GSFC programs and missions including TOMS. Data search and access functions allow the ordering of cd-roms, ftp retrieval, and visual search of data online. [back-to-the-top]

If you are interested in the full range of NASA's Mission, the NASA Headquarters is the best first step in your search of offical NASA information. This is the home of the Agency-wide electronic newsletter, today@NASA which contains the most recent and noteworthy material about the space agency's activities. Both sites contain search engines for your assistance.

Information about the most recent shuttle mission can be obtained through NASA's on-line press kit. This service allows the public and the media to get this material earlier and in greater detail than in the past.

The NASA Observatorium is an excellent site to get all sorts of basic information on Earth Science. (The primer in the Ozone Section was provided by the Observatorium.)

The Earth Science Enterprise (formerly Mission To Planet Earth) website can provide complete and thorough information on NASA's comprehensive program to study our planet. The Earth Observing System (EOS) is the centerpiece of the Earth Science Enterprise. It consists of a science component and a data system supporting a coordinated series of polar-orbiting and low inclination satellites for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans. [back-to-the-top]

The European Space Agency's (ESA) primary ozone monitoring instrument is the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME). The instrument is onboard the second European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) and provides global coverage every three days.

The German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Remote Sensing Data Centre has a site devoted to atmospheric research using GOME data products.

The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) has daily TOMS data available for downloading. This site mirrors some of the content of the TOMS websites and may be a better choice for European users. [back-to-the-top]