Sentences with phrase «ozone hole appears»

Our modeling experiments have shown that the S.H. ozone hole appears to produce a more positive phase of the NAM.

Overall, however, the ozone hole appears to be on a healing path.

As I noted in the introduction to this post, the SAM trend is partly explained by ozone depletion in the stratosphere, and the most clearly anomalous melt in the James Ross Island core occurs after the late 1970s, about the time the ozone hole appeared.

Not exact matches

Still, arctic ozone levels fell during most winters in the 1990s, making researchers worry that a northern ozone hole might appear.

Confusingly, it appears that one human impact on the climate — the Antarctic ozone hole — is currently compensating for another, global warming.

For example, they say, injecting sulfate particles into the atmosphere would largely destroy the ozone layer over the Arctic and set back attempts to mend the «hole» that appears seasonally over the Antarctic.

The study, conducted with the help of Chilean health and veterinary authorities, appears to undermine local claims, repeated in the Western press over the past two years, that rabbits, sheep and other animals have been blinded by the ozone hole.

Data from the Swedish Odin satellite indicate that no arctic ozone hole will appear this winter, despite fears to that effect.

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, doi: 10.1029 / 2011GL049784 Arctic winter 2010/2011 at the brink of an ozone hole ``... severe ozone depletion like in 2010/2011 or even worse could appear for cold Arctic winters over the next decades if the observed tendency for cold Arctic winters to become colder continues into the future....»

Data from the Swedish Odin satellite indicate that no arctic ozone hole will appear this winter, despite fears to that effect.

In a year that saw the first genuine «ozone hole» appear in the Northern Hemisphere, atmospheric scientists say they are shocked to learn that Environment Canada, the country» s environment agency, has decided to drastically reduce its ozone science and monitoring programme.»

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

No scientist anticipated the stunning 70 % losses of ozone that appeared in the Antarctic ozone hole, nor the 30 % losses in ozone that appeared in the Arctic.