Sentences with phrase «ozone loss because»

«By adopting the Montreal Protocol in 1987, society demonstrated it was unwilling to tolerate a small percentage of ozone loss because of serious health risks,» said Toon.

Manmade chlorofluorocarbons drive ozone depletion (not the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide), but scientists say that global warming has likely exacerbated ozone loss because it cools the upper part of the atmosphere even as it warms the lower part.

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But again this does not prevent further ozone loss, because stable remnants of the polar vortex often survive the breakdown for weeks and ozone loss can continue in these remnants.

But again this does not prevent further ozone loss, because stable remnants of the polar vortex often survive the breakdown for weeks and ozone loss can continue in these remnants.

Because ozone rapidly decreases with height (very little ozone above 35 km), ozone loss is estimated to have caused only half of the cooling at the higher levels of the stratosphere.

In 1987, under the Montreal Protocol, countries agreed to end production of ozone - destroying substances, including chlorofluorocarbons — but because they linger in the atmosphere, ozone losses aren't expected to end for the next 50 years or so, Rex said.

The stratosphere has cooled because of ozone loss due to moisture arising in tropical convection overshoot.

Global warming is implicated in the loss of Arctic ozone because greenhouse gases trap energy lower down, heating up the atmosphere nearer the ground but cooling the stratosphere, creating conditions conducive to the formation of the reactive chemicals that break apart the three - oxygen molecules of ozone.

Speaking on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization, Braather was keen to stress that this year's Arctic ozone loss record was not because the Montreal Protocol isn't working.

That news turned heads because it's the ozone layer over Antarctica that's most prone to ozone loss.

Omitting OMPS - Limb will result in the complete loss of precise information about the ozone - height profile after 2014, because OMPS - Limb was the only instrument planned to fly after Aura that would be capable of determining ozone profiles below the peak concentration in the stratosphere.