Czech scientists to measure ozone in Antarctica

Prague, Jan 31 (CTK) - A Czech scientific expedition leaves for Antarctica yesterday to install special instruments such as the Brewer spectrophotometer to measure ozone, Michal Janouch, one of the expedition's members, announced.
The spectrophotometer will be installed at Marambio base at Seymour Island. It is to automatically measure the amount of total column ozone in the atmosphere and the amount of ultraviolet radiation that reaches the earth's surface.
The expedition that is to last until late February comprises experts from the Czech Hydrometeorology Institute and the Czech University of Technology (CVUT).
Such instruments to be installed in Antarctica were tested at Labska bouda in Krkonose (Giant Mountains) in eastern Bohemia.
At present, seven Czech researchers work on geological mapping of the deglaciated northern part of the Ulu Peninsula.
A Czech polar station in Antarctica, located on the northern coast of James Ross Island, started working in early 2007.
Experts from Czech universities and research institutes are studying there the origin and development of life on the Earth after the glaciers receded.