Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 00:58
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South Pole Ozone Changes

hello to everybody from your team

we have some questions.......there is light all the day. Can you sleep without darkness? Is it warm enought in your sleepingbags? Have you get any results of your project and are they positive or negative? What do you think about your results?

 We hope your expedition is successful  an we wish Mary Christmas 

Sun, 12/23/2007 - 21:42

Elke Bergholz

Hello and thank you for your question, even though I do not know who you are. No I can not sleep well without darkness. That is why I darkened my room. And I am blinding my eyes as well while I am sleeping. That helps. I am finally getting some sleep. We are not sleeping in sleeping bags here at the South Pole Station. Only peolpe in field camps have sleeping bags when they sleep in tents. We have small rooms that are heated to about 60 degrees F. It is very comfortable. Yes, we have some results from our projects reagarding the ozone. The surface ozone experiments and the stratospheric profiles confirmed our prediction for data at this time of he year : 1. elevated ozone on the surface due to photochemistry. These elevated ozone data are not harmful to us.2. The stratospheric ozone profile showed that the ozone hole has closed but we still have less overall ozone.Elke Bergholz