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Monitoring of atmospheric composition is becoming more important as the atmosphere is increasingly polluted by man-made chemicals. Depletion of the planet's ozone layer is of particular environmental concern, because it leads to increased level of ultraviolet (UV) radiation on the surface. The UV radiation is known to be dangerous to humans and animals (causing e.g. skin cancer, cataract, immune suppression) and having harmful effects on agriculture, forests and oceanic food chain.

The main objective of the O3M SAF is to process, archive, validate and disseminate atmospheric composition products (O₃, NO₂, SO₂, OClO, HCHO, BrO, H₂O), aerosols and surface ultraviolet radiation utilising the satellites of EUMETSAT. The majority of the current O3M SAF products are based on the data from the GOME-2 spectrometer onboard MetOp-A satellite, launched in October 2006.

Near real-time products are disseminated via EUMETCast, GTS or Internet. Offline products can be ordered from EUMETSAT Data Centre. Additionally, offline products are available from local archives and ftp servers at FMI and DLR.

Dissemination status: 1 pre-operational and 26 operational products are available to users.

Note: All intellectual property rights of the O3M SAF products belong to EUMETSAT. The use of these products is granted to every interested user, free of charge. If you wish to use these products, EUMETSAT’s copyright credit must be shown by displaying the words ”copyright (year) EUMETSAT” on each of the products used.