Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Climate change favours large seasonal loss of Arctic ozone

  • Peter von der Gathen,
  • Rigel Kivi,
  • Ingo Wohltmann,
  • Ross J. Salawitch,
  • Markus Rex

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24089-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Despite a ban on ozone depleting substances, ozone depletion during cold winters in the Arctic stratosphere has been increasing in recent decades. Here, the authors show conditions favourable for Arctic ozone depletion could worsen as a response of stratospheric temperature and water to continued release of greenhouse gases.