Not exact matches
Compared to the 1991 - 2014 period, the
ozone hole's
average area this year was the fourth largest.
In fact the
average concentration of
ozone is everywhere lower than the value that used to define the present
ozone hole.
Figure 2: Total column
ozone loss relative to pre-
ozone hole conditions in the 1970s in percent (left) and total number of molecules (right)(1 DU = 2.69 molecules / cm2)
averaged over 2010 - 2019, during September for the Southern Hemisphere and March for the Northern Hemisphere.
The
average ozone levels were observed to fluctuate dramatically from one spring to the next, so that little could be said about the
hole's
average size.
The
ozone hole that forms each year in the stratosphere over Antarctica was slightly smaller in 2013 than
average in recent decades, according to NASA satellite data.