Alarming Depletion of Ozone Layer Above Antarctica: Scientists Seeking Cause

Ozone Layer Depletion

Halogens and polar boundary-layer ozone depletion

1 Geophysical Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-6160, USA 2 School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK 3 National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 14–901, Wellington, New Zealand 4 British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK 5 McGill University...

Depletion of the ozone layer in the 21st century.

Today the topics “ozone layer” and “ozone hole” have been placed on the back burner in public discussions of climate change. Since the mid-1980s it has been known that primarily chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and also halocarbons (compounds where carbon atoms are linked to fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine, but also to hydrogen) are mainly responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer in ...

Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion

During springtime in the polar regions, unique photochemistry converts inert halide salt ions (e.g. Br) into reactive halogen species (e.g. Br atoms and BrO) that deplete ozone in the boundary layer to near zero levels. Since their discovery in the late 1980s, research on ozone depletion events (ODEs) has made great advances; however many key processes remain poorly understood. In this article ...

Ozone Depletion