Stratospheric Ozone
"Stratospheric Ozone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Ozone in the Earth's stratosphere. It is produced continuously by the action of solar ULTRAVIOLET RAYS on oxygen in the stratosphere. The stratospheric ozone (especially at the ozone layer) blocks much of the solar UV radiation of wavelengths of 320 nanometers or less from being transmitted to lower ATMOSPHERE of the Earth.
| Descriptor ID |
D062952
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.362.670.600.500 G16.500.275.063.700 N06.230.300.100.700
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