Polar Stratospheric Clouds and the Ozone Hole
During the winter clouds appear in the Arctic and the Antarctic stratospheres. These clouds have been observed for over a century, and during most of that time they were considered an interesting and beautiful but relatively unimportant phenomenon. Recently, however, atmospheric scientists have foun...
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craippubl:10.1063/1.881277 2024-02-11T09:58:23+01:00 Polar Stratospheric Clouds and the Ozone Hole Hamill, Patrick Toon, Owen Brian 1991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.881277 https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-pdf/44/12/34/7510395/34_1_online.pdf en eng AIP Publishing Physics Today volume 44, issue 12, page 34-42 ISSN 0031-9228 1945-0699 General Physics and Astronomy journal-article 1991 craippubl https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881277 2024-01-26T09:46:54Z During the winter clouds appear in the Arctic and the Antarctic stratospheres. These clouds have been observed for over a century, and during most of that time they were considered an interesting and beautiful but relatively unimportant phenomenon. Recently, however, atmospheric scientists have found a critical relationship between the massive springtime ozone depletion over Antarctica and the formation of polar stratospheric clouds. (See figure 1.) In this article we outline the general properties of the three main types of stratospheric aerosols, and we show how changes in the levels of stratospheric nitrogen and chlorine species required for ozone depletion are dependent upon the formation of polar stratospheric clouds. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic AIP Publishing Arctic Antarctic The Antarctic Physics Today 44 12 34 42 |
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During the winter clouds appear in the Arctic and the Antarctic stratospheres. These clouds have been observed for over a century, and during most of that time they were considered an interesting and beautiful but relatively unimportant phenomenon. Recently, however, atmospheric scientists have found a critical relationship between the massive springtime ozone depletion over Antarctica and the formation of polar stratospheric clouds. (See figure 1.) In this article we outline the general properties of the three main types of stratospheric aerosols, and we show how changes in the levels of stratospheric nitrogen and chlorine species required for ozone depletion are dependent upon the formation of polar stratospheric clouds. |
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