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• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
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(about twice the size of the Antarctic continental land mass), with a maximum depleted mass of 57 megatons (Mt) but it then rapidly dissipated much earlier than usual. During the spring of 2001, the area and depleted mass were 25 million km 2 and 54 Mt, respectively (slightly less than the record values of the previous year). As in recent years, the hole persisted well into November, leading to potentially larger UV radiation effects. 7–9 The Antarctic ozone minimum in recent years has been about 90–100 DU, which is less than 40 % of the minima typical for Antarctica in the late 1970s, before the ozone hole first developed. The minimum recorded ozone column occurred in 1993 when other factors (e.g., aerosols from the volcanic eruption of Mt Pinatubo) contributed to a particularly severe depletion of ozone. In the Arctic, ozone depletion remains less severe than in the