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Increased polar stratospheric ozone losses and delayed eventual recovery owing to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations.

Author(s) : SHINDELL D. T., RIND D., LONERGAN P.

Type of article: Article

Summary

The paper investigates the interplay between projected future emissions of greenhouse gases and levels of ozone-depleting halogen species using a global climate model that incorporates simplified ozone-depletion chemistry. Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases might be at least partly responsible for the very large Artic ozone losses observed in recent winters. Arctic losses reach a maximum in the decade 2010 to 2019 in the authors' model, roughly a decade after the maximum in stratospheric chlorine abundance.

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  • Original title: Increased polar stratospheric ozone losses and delayed eventual recovery owing to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations.
  • Record ID : 1999-0602
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Environment, General information
  • Source: Nature - vol. 392 - n. 6676
  • Publication date: 1998/04/09
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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