Sentences with phrase «ozone loss continued»
Although the vortex broke down around mid-March of that winter, ozone loss continued in a stable remnant and by early April about 70 % of the ozone at 20 km was destroyed in this fragment of the vortex.
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The cold conditions affected the distribution of nitrogen oxides, allowing ozone loss to continue longer than usual.
But the warming does not have an immediate effect on ozone loss and our observations show that ozone loss still continues these days.
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 the warming does not have an immediate effect on ozone loss and our observations show that ozone loss still continues these days.
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.
«Although stratospheric ozone losses are expected to stabilize and eventually recover to preindustrial levels over the course of the twenty - first century, these results show that increasing greenhouse gases will continue to intensify the polar vortex throughout the twenty - first century, but that radiative forcing will cause widespread temperature increases over the entire Southern Hemisphere.»
«The models show this magnitude of ozone loss would persist for five years, and we would see substantial losses continuing for at least another five years,» he said.
They calculated that if CFC production continued to increase at the going rate of 10 % / year until 1990, then remain steady, CFCs would cause a global 5 to 7 percent ozone loss by 1995 and 30 - 50 % loss by 2050.