Arctic ozone hole largest ever
OCT 03, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025617
New Scientist : For the first time since observations began, ozone destruction over the Arctic in early 2011 was comparable to that over Antarctica. Although the Arctic ozone layer suffers a little damage every winter, the effect is usually short-lived. In the first three months of this year, however, more than 80% of the existing ozone was destroyed at a height of 18–20 km—a loss twice that seen in the two previous record-setting Arctic winters, 1996 and 2005, according to Nathaniel Livesey of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who is an author of a paper published in Nature. Scientists are now looking to see whether climate change could be partly responsible.
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