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ozone layer

Also known as stratospheric ozone, ozone shield, atmospheric ozone, atmospheric ozone layer

region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's UV radiation

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The ozone layer is a region in Earth's upper atmosphere that absorbs most of the harmful ultraviolet radiation coming from the Sun. This protection matters because it shields life on Earth's surface from UV radiation that can damage living organisms.

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Research

3,115 papers

Anaesthetic agents and the ozone layer.ReviewAnaesthesia and intensive care · 1990Westhorpe R, Blutstein HDOI: 10.1177/0310057X9001800115
Ozone depletion update.ReviewDermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.] · 1996Coldiron BMDOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.1996.tb00321.x
UV-induced DNA damage and repair: a review.ReviewPhotochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2002Sinha RP, Häder DPDOI: 10.1039/b201230h
Australian wildfires depleted the ozone layer.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Salawitch RJ, McBride LADOI: 10.1126/science.add2056
How CubeSats could harm the ozone layer.Nature · 2023DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-01281-w
Stratospheric ozone depletion.ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2006Rowland FSDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1783
CFCS and the ozone layer.British journal of clinical practice. Supplement · 1997Hayman GD
Depletion of the ozone layer: consequences for non-infectious human diseases.ReviewParasitology · 1993Bentham GDOI: 10.1017/s0031182000086108

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The ozone layer visible from space at Earth's horizon as a blue band of afterglow within the bottom of the large bright blue band that is the stratosphere, with a silhouette of a cumulonimbus in the orange afterglow of the troposphere.

The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. It contains a high concentration of ozone (O3) in relation to other parts of the atmosphere, although still small in relation to other gases in the stratosphere. The ozone layer peaks at 8 to 15 parts per million of ozone, while the average ozone concentration in Earth's atmosphere as a whole is about 0.3 parts per million. The ozone layer is mainly found in the lower portion of the stratosphere, from approximately 15 to 35 kilometers (9 to 22 mi) above Earth, although its thickness varies seasonally and geographically.