Sentences with phrase «affect ozone loss»

To determine whether declining pollutants deserve credit for the recovery, the researchers used a 3D atmospheric model to separate the effects of the chemicals from those of weather, which can affect ozone loss through winds and temperature, and volcanic eruptions, which deplete ozone by pumping sulfate particles into the upper atmosphere.

«Until we did our recent work no - one realized that the Calbuco eruption in Chile, actually had significantly affected the ozone loss in October of last year,» Solomon said.

Not exact matches

The cold conditions affected the distribution of nitrogen oxides, allowing ozone loss to continue longer than usual.

To date, air affected by the record - breaking ozone loss has hovered over Canada, eastern Russia and Scandinavia but has not extended down to the heavily - populated regions of Germany and central Europe, although this situation could change.

These models may well be significantly affected by increases in marine boundary layer ozone loss, but since they have only just started to be used to simulate 20th and early 21st Century changes, it is very unclear what difference it will make at the large scale.