Reductions in ozone at high concentrations of stratospheric halogens
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- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 312 (5991) , 227-231
- https://doi.org/10.1038/312227a0
Abstract
An increase in the concentration of inorganic chlorine to levels comparable to that of oxidized reactive nitrogen could cause a significant change in the chemistry of the lower stratosphere leading to a reduction potentially larger than 15% in the column density of ozone. This could occur, for example by the middle of the next century, if emissions of man-made chlorocarbons were to grow at a rate of 3%/yr. Ozone could be further depressed by release of industrial bromocarbon.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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