Launching weather balloons to monitor ozone at the South Pole
Channel: NOAAESRL
Date: 2021-11-22

Since 1986, NOAA has been monitoring the Antarctic ozone hole. With an atmospheric research observatory, NOAA measures atmospheric ozone through two means:
1) weather balloons carrying ozone-measuring sondes vertically through the atmosphere,
2) a ground-based instrument called Dobson spectrometer.
In this video, we show how a weather balloon is launched at the South Pole.
Video is filed by NOAA Corps office, Lieutenant Timothy Holland.