Climate Change and Atmospheric Circulation will Make for Uneven Ozone Recovery

by Kazi Farhed Iqubal

Earth's ozone layer should eventually recover from the unintended destruction brought on by the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar ozone-depleting chemicals in the 20th century. But new research by NASA scientists suggests the ozone layer of the future is unlikely to look much like the past because greenhouse gases are changing the dynamics of the atmosphere.

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F. Li, R. S. Stolarski, and P. A. Newman. Stratospheric ozone in the post-CFC era. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2009; 9: 2207-2213

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