New tools for measuring ozone

New tools for measuring ozone

PADANG, West Sumatra: The agency for meteorology and
geophysics has installed sophisticated equipment for monitoring
global atmosphere in Agam regency.

The station called Global Atmosphere Watch which opened over
the weekend is the first in Indonesia and the sixth in the world
after Algiers, Argentina, Brazil, China and Kenya.

Agency chief Rear Marshall Sri Diharto said the new system
integrates the background air pollution monitoring network and
the global ozone observation system with other systems.

The station provided by the World Meteorology Organization
will monitor the condition of the ozone layer, chemical
composition of rain, aerosol level, solar radiation and
climatology.

The World Meteorology Organization contributed US$330,000 of
the total US$1.1 million needed to build the station, Diharto
said. (32)