The cause appears not to be raw solar power output (TSI) which varies too little but instead, the precise mix of particles and wavelengths from the sun which vary more greatly and affect
ozone amounts above the tropopause.
1) Solar activity increases, reducing
ozone amounts above the tropopause especially above the poles.
Variations in temperatures,
ozone amounts, and the altitude at which the atmosphere has a given pressure have been correlated with the solar cycle.
Current research combines the climate and chemistry changes in the GISS model to predict future stratospheric
ozone amounts both over the polar regions and at lower latitudes.
So, if solar variability can influence stratosphere temperatures, for example by affecting
ozone amounts differentially between equator and poles, then there you have it.
To enable predictions of future
ozone amounts, and to identify whether (and what) action might be needed to prevent further decreases, it is extremely important to understand what is causing the observed downward trend.»
Ozone amounts in the depletion layer are the lowest seen in the 21 year record of ozone profile measurements at the South Pole.
The depletion has persisted well into October 2006 and
ozone amounts are lowest seen in the 21 - year observation record.
Partial column
ozone amounts in this layer declined from an average of 125 Dobson Units in July / August 2006 to 1.5 DU on October 6..
Ozone amounts change with the seasons on the planet, as its presence relies on water vapor, which destroys ozone.
Images from the latter can show how
ozone amounts differ from season - to - season and how clouds are formed over volcanoes on the planet.
These observations allow us to provide a continuous long - term record to track the long - term and year - to - year evolution of
ozone amounts.
A balloon - borne, ozone instrument used to vertically profile
the ozone amount in the atmosphere.
Not exact matches
Photocopiers are a source of potentially deadly
ozone if the filter isn't periodically changed, and it's possible that even very small
amounts can cause chest pain and irritation.
We need to check and see, for example, whether or not the water they're serving at Molecule has been treated by ultraviolet rays,
ozone treatments and reverse osmosis via a machine that costs an unimaginable
amount of money.
And while I researched it enough to know that the
amount of
ozone produced is very minimal and perfectly fine for the average household, I make sure to turn the machine off when it starts the deodorizing cycle, just in case.
However, it blocks the excessive
amounts that can harm your child, especially in today's world of global warming and
ozone depletion.
«While
ozone depletion from dichloromethane is currently quite modest, it is uncertain how the
amount of this gas in the atmosphere will change in the future.
The white pixels represent the aerosols (smoke) leftover from the fires, while the green, yellow, and red pixels represent rising
amounts of tropospheric
ozone (smog).
These hydrocarbons, together with olefinic minor LPG components, furnish substantial
amounts of hydroxyl radical reactivity, a major precursor to formation of the
ozone component of urban smog.
But in March, researchers with England's University of East Anglia reported finding four new
ozone - depleting compounds in the atmosphere — three chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and one hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC)--
amounting to about 81,000 tons.
But the reactive gases emitted by trees can also increase the
amounts of
ozone and methane, both greenhouse gases which have warming effects on the climate.
That helps explain why the
ozone layer is still under attack, even though the
amount of airborne chlorine is decreasing.
The researchers found that while the
amount of
ozone depletion arising from VSLS in the atmosphere today is small compared to that caused by longer - lived gases, such as CFCs, VSLS - driven
ozone depletion was found to be almost four times more efficient at influencing climate.
If the chemicals that were now discovered in unexpectedly large
amounts can reach the
ozone layer in significant quantities, they can cause damage.
Dichloromethane was found in large
amounts, and so was 1,2 - dichloroethane, an
ozone - depleting substance used to make PVC.
They found that elevated CO2 of 800 ppm, increased pollen production per flower by 53 percent while the different
ozone levels had no effect on the
amount of pollen produced.
They then compared their yearly September
ozone measurements with model simulations that predict
ozone levels based on the
amount of chlorine that scientists have estimated to be present in the atmosphere from year to year.
Over the last 50 years satellite and ground - based records over Antarctica show
ozone column
amounts ranging from 100 to 400 Dobson units, which translates to about 1 millimeter (1/25 inch) to 5 millimeters (1/6 inch) of
ozone in a layer if all of the
ozone were brought down to the surface.
Dobson units are a measure of the overhead
amount of atmospheric
ozone.
«When we ran these calculations, we found that in some cases, there was a significant
amount of
ozone that built up in the atmosphere, despite there not being any oxygen flowing into the atmosphere,» said Shawn Domagal - Goldman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
However, if the
amount of oxygen - consuming gases is vanishingly small, the oxygen and the
ozone might stick around for a while.
He adds: «Scientists have been so concerned about
ozone depletion that they haven't really thought about what effect such a high
ozone level could have — life on Earth needs a certain
amount of UV.»
They find that even if
ozone - damaging chemicals (chiefly CFCs) are phased out in line with current international agreements, the
amount of chlorine - bearing material in the stratosphere will continue to increase for several decades.
Twenty to 40 % of
ozone coverage might have been lost — in turn, doubling the
amount of UV radiation that reached Earth's surface, the team reports in a paper in press in Gondwana Research.
Because
ozone and other constituents absorb light at known wavelengths, the researchers were able to calculate the
amount of
ozone and other gases.
At precisely these altitudes, the
amount of
ozone in the stratosphere declined between three and six months after the eruption.
The scientists concluded that as much as 10 per cent of the
ozone destroyed so far — which
amounts to between 4 and 6 per cent of the preindustrial
amount of
ozone — has been destroyed by methyl bromide.
When
ozone rose to only 20 parts per billion, it took 180 minutes for the same
amount of bees to find the scent.
She collected pollen and irradiated it in a lab for 3 minutes with UV light, simulating the
amount of UV that can reach the Earth's surface in Patagonia and other regions in the southern hemisphere under the seasonal
ozone hole.
Because
ozone in the troposphere is a precursor to OH, they deployed weather balloons equipped with measuring devices known as sondes to measure the
amount of
ozone in the air from the surface to the stratosphere.
Inert gases such as neon (Ne), helium (He), and krypton (Kr) and other constituents such as nitrogen oxides, compounds of sulfur, and compounds of
ozone are found in lesser
amounts.
A team of researchers from the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the Wageningen University in the Netherlands measured the
amount of
ozone between 10,000 and 30,000 feet above the Earth's surface.
The transport processes are also very variable from winter to winter and the
amount of
ozone pumped into the Arctic is also correlated with temperature (this is not a causal relationship — the correlation exists, because variability in temperatures and in
ozone transport are both driven by the same atmospheric processes).
[Response: The previous post gives the background for why any particular year has different
amounts of
ozone loss, and why we anticipated that this year had the potential to be a bad one.
As for # 11, «BTW, the
ozone hole over Antarctica is not getting any smaller, despite decreasing
amount of chlorohydrocarbons.
BTW, the
ozone hole over Antarctica is not getting any smaller, despite decreasing
amount of chlorohydrocarbons.
According to a study published in the March 2002 Journal of Geographical Research by a joint research team from the University of Maryland and NASA, overall, the increased
amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is speeding up the recovery of the
ozone layer — including the hole at the South Pole.
But near the poles and in the upper stratosphere, CO2 is increasing the
amount of
ozone by preventing nitrogen oxide from breaking it down.
The forcing due to reduced
amounts of long lived GHGs (CO2, CH4, N2O) was -3 ± 0.5 W / m2, with the indirect effects of CH4 on tropospheric
ozone and stratospheric water vapor included (fig.