Sentences with phrase «ozone recovery because»

Short - lived substances, on the other hand, will have a minimal effect on delaying ozone recovery because they are more likely to degrade before reaching the stratosphere, she said.

Not exact matches

Tracking the ozone layer's recovery process is tricky because natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions and weather variations can alter the size of the ozone hole.

Scientists knew recovery of the ozone layer would take time because of the long lifetimes of many dangerous compounds we unleashed in past decades.

The long time scale for this recovery arises because ozone depleting gases such as chlorofluorocarbons are only removed from the atmosphere by natural processes at very slow rates.

Trenberth also admitted that the climate models have major shortcomings because «they do not consider many things like the recovery of the ozone layer, for instance, or observed trends in forcing agents.

«You have sort of this tug - of - war between the jet being pulled equatorward during the summer because of the ozone recovery and the greenhouse gases pulling the jet further poleward,» Grise said.

Ozone recovery in the tropical stratosphere is expected to be faster and the recovery of the polar ozone hole is expected to be slower because of the CO2 - induced cooling of the stratosphere (and increase the number of polar stratospheric cloOzone recovery in the tropical stratosphere is expected to be faster and the recovery of the polar ozone hole is expected to be slower because of the CO2 - induced cooling of the stratosphere (and increase the number of polar stratospheric cloozone hole is expected to be slower because of the CO2 - induced cooling of the stratosphere (and increase the number of polar stratospheric clouds).