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UARS BROCHURE

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

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Click on the underlined words or picture to link to another page of information on the subject, once inside the linked page click on the thumbnail image to link to an enlarged (JPEG) version of the picture. The information for this page can also be found in the UARS brochure titled Understanding Our Atmosphere

 [Cover] | [Temperature and Transport] | [Pollutants] | [The Ozone Layer] | [SRRP] | [Antarctic Ozone Hole] | [CFCs] | [Development of the Ozone Hole] | [Ozone Hole Mapping] | [CLO Variations] | [Polar Ozone Destruction] | [Tropical Water Vapor Ascent] | [Equatorial Winds] | [Mt. Pinatubo Erupting] | [Sulfur Dioxide from Mt. Pinatubo] | [Decay of the Mt. Pinatubo Aerosol Cloud] | [SUSIM/ACRIM] | [Variations in Solar UV] | [PEM] | [Tidal Winds] | [Jakarta Barometric Pressure] | [Barometer] | [Tidal Variation in Airglow] | [Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor and El Nino] | [Gravity Wave Breaking in the Mesosphere] | [High Clouds in the Tropics] | [UARS Instrument Time line] | [ Satellite Missions]


UARS Brochure Cover

The cover of the brochure contains an image of UARS above the Earth's surface.

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Temperature and Transport map

Temperature and Transport

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Tractor Image

Natural and Man-made Pollutants:

Methane (swamp), Sulfur (volcano), Nitrous Oxide (tractor), Halocarbons (air conditioning unit)
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Ozone Layer Map

The Ozone Layer

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Ozone Map

 SRRP

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Antarctic Ozone Hole

The Antarctic Ozone Hole

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CFCs diagram

 Confirming the Problem with CFC's

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Antarctic Ozone Hole

Development of the Antarctic Ozone Hole

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Ozone Hole Mapping by UARS instruments

Ozone Hole Mapping Continues with UARS Instruments

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CLO variations over the Arctic

CLO Variations Over the Arctic

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Polar Ozone Destruction

Catalytic Cycle of Polar Ozone Destruction:

Chlorine reacts with ozone, forming chlorine monoxide (1-3), starting the catalytic ozone-destruction cycle. Chlorine monoxide can react with itself to form CI2O2 (4-5), which is broken apart by sunlight (6), producing chlorine atoms and an oxygen molecule (6-7). The cycle begins again as a chlorine atom reacts with more ozone (1).

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Water Vapor Measurements Map

Ascent of Tropical Water Vapor:

(TOP) Deviations from the time-averaged HALOE water vapor measurements show the ascent of tropical air. Orange indicates moist air; blue and purple indicate dry air.

(BOTTOM) Air enters the stratosphere through towering tropical cumulus clouds. During Northern Hemisphere summer, air entering the tropical stratosphere is slightly wetter (yellow) while during the Northern Hemisphere winter, air entering the stratosphere is slightly drier (blue).

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Equatorial Winds Map

Equatorial Winds

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Mt. Pinatubo Erupting

Mt. Pinatubo Erupting

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Sulfur Dioxide  map from Mt. Pinatubo

Sulfur Dioxide From Mt. Pinatubo:

Residual SO2 at 26 km measured by MLS on September 21, 1991, just over 3 months after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.

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Aerosol maps

Global Time Series of Mt. Pinatubo Aerosol and the Decay of the Mt. Pinatubo Aerosol Cloud.

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Solar UV variations diagram

SUSIM/ACRIM

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Solar UV variations map

Variations in Solar UV as the Sun Rotates:

A plot of the variation of the UV irradiance during rotation of the Sun as measured by SOLSTICE. The six solar images correspond to peaks and valleys of irradiance during the 27-day solar rotation. The bright regions on the solar images are the source of the peaks in UV radiation.

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Ionization map

PEM

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Tidal Winds Map

Tidal Winds

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Jakarta Barometric Pressure

Jakarta Barometric Pressure

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Barometer

 Barometer

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Tidal Variations in Airglow

Tidal Variation in Airglow

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Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor and El Nino

Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor and El Nino

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Gravity Waves

Gravity Wave Breaking in the Mesosphere

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High Clouds Maps

High Clouds in the Tropics:

The occurrence frequency of tropical high thin cirrus clouds over 3-month periods is shown here. CLAES has been able to map the location of cirrus clouds better than previous space instruments.

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UARS Instruments Timeline

UARS Instrument Time line

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Satellite Picture

Satellite Missions

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