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 ...

Not much has been written about air cleaning from ozone. The aim of this paper was to demonstrate the possibility of adsorption air cleaning from ozone. The second aim was to investigate the dependence of the efficiency of ozone removal from the air on the height of the adsorber layer and on concentrations of ozone, and to obtain empirical formulas for calculating the efficiency of ozone treatm...

Automatic monitoring, data collection, analysis and prediction of environmental changes is essential for all living things. Understanding future climate changes does not only helps in measuring the influence on people life, habits, agricultural and health but also helps in avoiding disasters. Giving the high emission of chemicals on air, scientist discovered the growing depletion in ozone layer...

The occurrence of high nocturnal surface ozone over a tropical urban area (23̊ 32′16.99′′ N and 87̊ 17′ 38.95′′ E) is analyzed in this paper. Five incidences of nocturnal ozone maxima are recorded during the observational span of two years (June, 2013 to May, 2015). The maximum and minimum values of the surface ozone during these five occasions are 337.630 μg/m3 and 13.034 μg/m3 respectively. HYS...

In this paper, simplified ozone models for potential use in integrated assessment are developed from the EMEP ozone model, which is a single-layer Lagrangian trajectory model. The simplification method uses fuzzy rule generation methodology to represent numerous results of the EMEP model as a response surface describing the source-receptor relationships between ozone precursor emissions and dai...

The ozone layer in the stratosphere absorbs a large part of the harmful UV-radiation coming from the sun. In the natural situation ozone is continuously being formed and destroyed. However, a number of man-made chemicals that contain fluorine, bromine and chlorine groups, called Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS), can greatly increase the rate of destruction, leading to a reduction in the thickne...

This study aims at providing experimental evidence, to support the hypothesis according to which the movement of the moon’s shadow sweeping the ozone layer at supersonic speed, during a solar eclipse, creates gravity waves in the atmosphere. An experiment was conducted to study eclipse induced thermal fluctuations in the ozone layer (via measurements of total ozone column, ozone photolysis rate...

Surrounding the earth at a height of about 25 kilometers is the stratosphere, rich in ozone, which prevents the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV-B) rays from reaching the earth. UV-B rays have an adverse effect on all living organisms, including marine life, crops, animals and birds, and humans. In humans, UV-B is known to affect the immune system; to cause skin cancer, eye damage, and cataracts; ...

A coupled tropospheric chemistry-climate model is used to analyze tropospheric ozone distributions observed during the MINOS campaign in the eastern Mediterranean region (August, 2001). Modeled ozone profiles are generally in good agreement with the observations. Our analysis shows that the atmospheric dynamics in the region are strongly influenced by the occurrence of an upper tropospheric ant...