Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2014 Update
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2014
World Meteorological Organization Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project - Report No. 55
World Meteorological Organization
United Nations Environment Programme
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
European Commission
Contents
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Ozone in our atmosphere
The ozone depletion process
- How do emissions of halogen source gases lead to stratospheric ozone depletion?
- What emissions from human activities lead to ozone depletion?
- What are the reactive halogen gases that destroy stratospheric ozone?
- What are the chlorine and bromine reactions that destroy stratospheric ozone?
- Why has an "ozone hole" appeared over Antarctica when ozone-depleting substances
are present throughout the stratosphere? Stratospheric ozone depletion
Controlling ozone-depleting substances
Implications of ozone depletion and the Montreal Protocol
Stratospheric ozone in the future
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Additional Topics
- Global Ozone Network - end of Question 5
- Understanding Stratospheric Ozone Depletion - end of Question 6
- The Discovery of the Antarctic Ozone Hole - end of Question 10
- The 2002 Antarctic Ozone Hole - end of Question 11
- Initial Signs of Ozone Recovery - end of Question 13
- The Antarctic Ozone Hole and Southern Hemisphere Surface Climate - end of Question 18