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In 1998, NASA’s SHADOZ network was proposed as a three-year project to fill in tropical ozone gaps for satellite algorithms, and by 2023 its balloon-borne sondes from 14 stations across five continents had quietly archived 10,000 ozone profiles

In 1998, NASA’s SHADOZ network was proposed as a three-year project to fill in tropical ozone gaps for satellite algorithms, and by 2023 its balloon-borne sondes from 14 stations across five continents had quietly archived 10,000 ozone profiles

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In 1998, NASA proposed a three-year balloon campaign to fix a tropical blind spot in satellite ozone measurements. Twenty-five years later, the SHADOZ network has archived 10,000 profiles from 14 stations across five continents and quietly become the backbone of tropical ozone science. The post In 1998, NASA’s SHADOZ network was proposed as a three-year project to fill in tropical ozone gaps for satellite algorithms, and by 2023 its balloon-borne sondes from 14 stations across five continents had quietly archived 10,000 ozone profiles appeared first on Space Daily .

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