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Satellite map of ozone hole over Antarctica in 2021

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Ozone concentration over Antarctica on October 7, 2021. To allow comparisons from year to year, experts define the "ozone hole" as the area in which total column ozone levels are below 220 Dobson Units (dark blue, marked with black triangle on color bar). NOAA Climate.gov image based on TOAST data from the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab.