Sentences with phrase «triggering ozone losses»

«The big surprise is that this study demonstrates that a small - scale, regional nuclear conflict is capable of triggering ozone losses even larger than losses that were predicted following a full - scale nuclear war.»

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Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

This may herald the most severe ozone loss yet over the Arctic region next spring — the time when sunlight returns to the northern hemisphere and triggers the reactions that destroy ozone.