But the Arctic has yet to suffer the deep, widespread and sustained
ozone loss seen each year over Antarctica.
Not exact matches
That falls short of Antarctica's total
loss at some altitudes, but it's one of the worst
ozone wipeouts ever
seen in the Arctic.
All that is said referring to the figure is «[Rex and his colleagues report that] after this winter's unusually low Arctic temperatures,
ozone losses are greater than any
seen before (
see graph).»
The recipe for massive springtime
ozone loss in the polar regions, such as the annual
ozone hole
seen over Antarctica during the past two decades, is fairly simple.
All that is said referring to the figure is «[Rex and his colleagues report that] after this winter's unusually low Arctic temperatures,
ozone losses are greater than any
seen before (
see graph).»
Forest
Loss - can be
seen to have started globally during the 1980s, due to droughts, heatwaves, surface
ozone concentrations, pests and wildfire, and is accelerating quite strongly.
Spring 2011 has
seen the largest - ever degree of
ozone loss over the northern hemisphere, journalists at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna heard this morning.
The more variable temperatures in the Arctic mean that some winters
see ozone loss of just 5 or 10 % whereas a «normal» winter could
see 30 %
loss.
«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.
This week, it's a paper on bromine - and iodine - mediated
ozone loss in marine boundary layer environments (
see a good commentary here).