Ozone and UV Monitoring Stations
The Met. Office measures ozone at Lerwick in the Shetlands using a Dobson spectrophotometer (until 2003 measurements were also made at Camborne in Cornwall). Stratospheric ozone monitoring is also undertaken by The University of Manchester at Reading University and The Valentia Observatory in the Irish Republic using Brewer spectrophotometers. Measurements of ultra-violet radiation are made at six sites in the UK.
- View the latest data from monitoring stations
- Stratospheric Ozone Maps
- Find out why we need to measure changes in the ozone layer
- Find out about Stratospheric Ozone Monitors
- Find out about UV Radiation Monitors
The table below shows the types of monitoring at each site.
| Monitoring site | Type of monitoring |
|---|---|
| Belfast | Broadband UV |
| Camborne | Broadband UV |
| Chilton | Broadband UV Spectral UV |
| Glasgow | Broadband UV |
| Inverness | Broadband UV |
| Leeds | Broadband UV |
| Lerwick | Ozone Monitoring Broadband UV |
| London | Broadband UV |
| Malin Head | Broadband UV |
| Manchester | Ozone Monitoring |
| Reading | Ozone Monitoring Spectral UV Broadband UV |
| Swansea | Broadband UV |
| Valencia | Ozone Monitoring |