LONG-TERM TRENDS OF ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATIONS OF TRACE HALOCARBONS IN THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN HEMISPHERES

• Main Authors: マキデ ヨシヒロ, トミナガ タケシ, Yoshihiro MAKIDE, Takeshi TOMINAGA
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ABSTRACT 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; Syowa Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3897; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003897/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3897&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

An extremely large ozone hole in Antarctica and record-breaking low levels of global scale ozone have been observed even after the effect caused by aerosols from the Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991 decreased. These stratospheric ozone depletions have been considered to be caused by still increasing atmospheric halocarbons. We have been accurately measuring atmospheric concentrations of those halocarbons (CFC-11,CFC-12,CFC-113,CFC-114,CH_3CCl_3,CCl_4,Halon-1301,Halon-1211,etc.) in the Southern Hemisphere (S.H.) as well as in the Northern Hemisphere (N.H.) in order to clarify the behavior of these compounds in the atmosphere and to estimate the future trends of concentrations and their effects on the earth's environment. Surface level samples in Antarctica have been collected (since 1982) at Syowa Station (69°S) into all-stainless steel sample canisters which had been prepared in extremely clean conditions and evacuated for grab-sampling. All the Antarctic samples have been analyzed after 3-15 months at The University of Tokyo by ECD gas chromatography. Averaged concentrations in the mid-latitude N.H. have been obtained (since 1979) by analyzing samples collected in Hokkaido (43-45°N). Most samples collected in Antarctica and Hokkaido have been stored in the laboratory for later measurement of new species and for checking the stability of calibration standards. Over the decade up to 1990,the globally averaged concentrations of CFC-12 and CFC-11 increased almost linearly by about 4% a year and that of CFC-113 increased by 10-20% a year. However, since 1990,the increasing trends of CFC-12,CFC-11 and CFC-113 in the N.H. have changed drastically, slowing down to 0-3% a year. Their increasing trends in the S.H., on the other hand, have only slightly changed, and their globally averaged concentrations are still increasing. The recent trends of globally averaged concentrations are reasonably in accordance with the international regulation of emissions of CFCs according to the 1987 original Montreal Protocol on Substances ...