The Antarctic Ozone Hole: An Update

The stratospheric ozone hole, an annual occurrence during austral spring, is caused by heterogeneous conversion of hydrogen chloride and chlorine nitrate to chlorine radicals. These reactions take place of polar stratospheric cloud particles in the cold, isolate Antarctic winter vortex. The chlorine...

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Main Authors: Solomon, Susan, Douglass, Anne R., Newman, Paul A.
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Published: 2014
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spelling ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20150011468 2023-05-15T13:35:23+02:00 The Antarctic Ozone Hole: An Update Solomon, Susan Douglass, Anne R. Newman, Paul A. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available July 2014 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150011468 unknown Document ID: 20150011468 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150011468 Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright CASI Environment Pollution GSFC-E-DAA-TN22029 Physics Today; 67; 7; 42-48 2014 ftnasantrs 2019-07-21T00:06:54Z The stratospheric ozone hole, an annual occurrence during austral spring, is caused by heterogeneous conversion of hydrogen chloride and chlorine nitrate to chlorine radicals. These reactions take place of polar stratospheric cloud particles in the cold, isolate Antarctic winter vortex. The chlorine radicals participate in chemical reactions that rapidly deplete ozone when sunlight returns at the end of polar night. International agreements eliminated production of the culprit anthropogenic chlorofluorocarbons in the late 1990s, but due to their long stratospheric lifetime (50-100 years), the ozone hole will continue its annual appearance for years to come. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic polar night NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Antarctic Austral The Antarctic
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Solomon, Susan
Douglass, Anne R.
Newman, Paul A.
The Antarctic Ozone Hole: An Update
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description The stratospheric ozone hole, an annual occurrence during austral spring, is caused by heterogeneous conversion of hydrogen chloride and chlorine nitrate to chlorine radicals. These reactions take place of polar stratospheric cloud particles in the cold, isolate Antarctic winter vortex. The chlorine radicals participate in chemical reactions that rapidly deplete ozone when sunlight returns at the end of polar night. International agreements eliminated production of the culprit anthropogenic chlorofluorocarbons in the late 1990s, but due to their long stratospheric lifetime (50-100 years), the ozone hole will continue its annual appearance for years to come.
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