Exhibition of Ozone equipment to be at Met Office
- September 12, 2015, 7:58 pm
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World Ozone Day on 16th:
HQ City Report
QUETTA: The Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 2015 is scheduled to be observed on September 16, 2015 in Quetta as elsewhere in the world.
According to the Met office Quetta, the exhibition of the ozone equipment and other related machines would be held at its office located on Brewery road.
The exhibition would start at 08:00 AM and would remain continued till 04:00 PM, stated in the official press release.
Needless to mention here is that the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is observed on September 16 every year.
The day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly. This designation was made on December 19, 1994, in commemoration of the date, in 1987, on which nations signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
The day is mainly intended to spread awareness of the depletion of the Ozone Layer and search for solutions to preserve it. People from all over the world are expected to gather in Montreal on September 16th to join the talks and seminars.
Educators usually set aside this day to teach their students about the Ozone layer and many schools organize special events and activities to raise awareness. This is one event that everyone can experience and enjoy together.
The ozone layer is a layer in Earth's atmosphere which absorbs most of the Sun's UV radiation. The ozone layer absorbs 97–99% of the Sun's medium-frequency ultraviolet light, which otherwise would potentially damage exposed life forms on Earth. Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth's stratosphere, and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions. The latter phenomenon is referred to as the ozone hole.
