Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011
Chemical ozone destruction occurs over both polar regions in local winter–spring. In the Antarctic, essentially complete removal of lower-stratospheric ozone currently results in an ozone hole every year, whereas in the Arctic, ozone loss is highly variable and has until now been much more limited....
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:25324 2024-09-15T17:46:11+00:00 Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011 Manney, Gloria L. Santee, Michelle L. Rex, Markus Livesey, Nathaniel J. Pitts, Michael C. Veefkind, Pepijn Nash, Eric R. Wohltmann, Ingo Lehmann, Ralph Froidevaux, Lucien Poole, Lamont R. Schoeberl, Mark R. Haffner, David P. Davies, Jonathan Dorokhov, Valery Gernandt, Hartwig Johnson, Bryan Kivi, Rigel Kyrö, Esko Larsen, Niels Levelt, Pieternel F. Makshtas, Alexander McElroy, C. Thomas Nakajima, Hideaki Parrondo, Maria Concepción Tarasick, David W. von der Gathen, Peter Walker, Kaley A. Zinoviev, Nikita S. 2011-10-27 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/25324/ https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10556 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.38387 unknown Macmillan Publishers Limited Manney, G. L. , Santee, M. L. , Rex, M. orcid:0000-0001-7847-8221 , Livesey, N. J. , Pitts, M. C. , Veefkind, P. , Nash, E. R. , Wohltmann, I. orcid:0000-0003-4606-6788 , Lehmann, R. , Froidevaux, L. , Poole, L. R. , Schoeberl, M. R. , Haffner, D. P. , Davies, J. , Dorokhov, V. , Gernandt, H. , Johnson, B. , Kivi, R. , Kyrö, E. , Larsen, N. , Levelt, P. F. , Makshtas, A. , McElroy, C. T. , Nakajima, H. , Parrondo, M. C. , Tarasick, D. W. , von der Gathen, P. orcid:0000-0001-7409-1556 , Walker, K. A. and Zinoviev, N. S. (2011) Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011 , Nature, 478 (7370), pp. 469-475 . doi:10.1038/nature10556 <https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10556> , hdl:10013/epic.38387 EPIC3Nature, Macmillan Publishers Limited, 478(7370), pp. 469-475, ISSN: 0028-0836 Article isiRev 2011 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10556 2024-06-24T04:03:41Z Chemical ozone destruction occurs over both polar regions in local winter–spring. In the Antarctic, essentially complete removal of lower-stratospheric ozone currently results in an ozone hole every year, whereas in the Arctic, ozone loss is highly variable and has until now been much more limited. Here we demonstrate that chemical ozone destruction over the Arctic in early 2011 was—for the first time in the observational record—comparable to that in the Antarctic ozone hole. Unusually long-lasting cold conditions in the Arctic lower stratosphere led to persistent enhancement in ozone-destroying forms of chlorine and to unprecedented ozone loss, which exceeded 80 per cent over 18–20 kilometres altitude. Our results show that Arctic ozone holes are possible even with temperatures much milder than those in the Antarctic. We cannot at present predict when such severe Arctic ozone depletion may be matched or exceeded. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Nature 478 7370 469 475 |
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Chemical ozone destruction occurs over both polar regions in local winter–spring. In the Antarctic, essentially complete removal of lower-stratospheric ozone currently results in an ozone hole every year, whereas in the Arctic, ozone loss is highly variable and has until now been much more limited. Here we demonstrate that chemical ozone destruction over the Arctic in early 2011 was—for the first time in the observational record—comparable to that in the Antarctic ozone hole. Unusually long-lasting cold conditions in the Arctic lower stratosphere led to persistent enhancement in ozone-destroying forms of chlorine and to unprecedented ozone loss, which exceeded 80 per cent over 18–20 kilometres altitude. Our results show that Arctic ozone holes are possible even with temperatures much milder than those in the Antarctic. We cannot at present predict when such severe Arctic ozone depletion may be matched or exceeded. |
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Manney, Gloria L. Santee, Michelle L. Rex, Markus Livesey, Nathaniel J. Pitts, Michael C. Veefkind, Pepijn Nash, Eric R. Wohltmann, Ingo Lehmann, Ralph Froidevaux, Lucien Poole, Lamont R. Schoeberl, Mark R. Haffner, David P. Davies, Jonathan Dorokhov, Valery Gernandt, Hartwig Johnson, Bryan Kivi, Rigel Kyrö, Esko Larsen, Niels Levelt, Pieternel F. Makshtas, Alexander McElroy, C. Thomas Nakajima, Hideaki Parrondo, Maria Concepción Tarasick, David W. von der Gathen, Peter Walker, Kaley A. Zinoviev, Nikita S. |
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Manney, Gloria L. Santee, Michelle L. Rex, Markus Livesey, Nathaniel J. Pitts, Michael C. Veefkind, Pepijn Nash, Eric R. Wohltmann, Ingo Lehmann, Ralph Froidevaux, Lucien Poole, Lamont R. Schoeberl, Mark R. Haffner, David P. Davies, Jonathan Dorokhov, Valery Gernandt, Hartwig Johnson, Bryan Kivi, Rigel Kyrö, Esko Larsen, Niels Levelt, Pieternel F. Makshtas, Alexander McElroy, C. Thomas Nakajima, Hideaki Parrondo, Maria Concepción Tarasick, David W. von der Gathen, Peter Walker, Kaley A. Zinoviev, Nikita S. Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011 |
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Manney, Gloria L. Santee, Michelle L. Rex, Markus Livesey, Nathaniel J. Pitts, Michael C. Veefkind, Pepijn Nash, Eric R. Wohltmann, Ingo Lehmann, Ralph Froidevaux, Lucien Poole, Lamont R. Schoeberl, Mark R. Haffner, David P. Davies, Jonathan Dorokhov, Valery Gernandt, Hartwig Johnson, Bryan Kivi, Rigel Kyrö, Esko Larsen, Niels Levelt, Pieternel F. Makshtas, Alexander McElroy, C. Thomas Nakajima, Hideaki Parrondo, Maria Concepción Tarasick, David W. von der Gathen, Peter Walker, Kaley A. Zinoviev, Nikita S. |
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