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    Ozone depletion consists of two related events observed since the late 1970s: a steady lowering of about four percent in the total amount of ozone in Earth's...
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  • The ozone depletion potential (ODP) of a chemical compound is the relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer it can cause, with trichlorofluoromethane...
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    out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. It was agreed on 16 September 1987, and entered into force on 1 January...
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    announced that the global depletion of the ozone layer might be slowing because of the international regulation of ozone-depleting substances. In a study...
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  • Ozone depletion and climate change are environmental challenges whose connections have been explored and which have been compared and contrasted, for...
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    The Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion is a sequence of reports sponsored by WMO/UNEP. The most recent report is from 2018. The reports were set...
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    remoteness, human activity has a significant effect on it via pollution, ozone depletion, and climate change. The melting of the potentially unstable West Antarctic...
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    polar ozone depletion. The effects on ozone depletion arise because they support chemical reactions that produce active chlorine which catalyzes ozone destruction...
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    polar tropospheric ozone depletion events in addition to these stratospheric events. The main causes of ozone depletion and the ozone hole are manufactured...
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    relative rise in ozone (O3) depletion in the polar region, as well as an increase in the frequency of ozone holes. Ozone depletion, on the other hand...
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    capable of catalytically breaking down the ozone present in this part of the atmosphere. Ozone depletion would allow a much greater intensity of harmful...
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  • caused an ozone depletion of up to 92%. It lasted for 15 days and the ozone layer was fully restored a couple of days afterwards. EEP ozone depletion studies...
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    Chlorofluorocarbon (category Ozone depletion)
    Air Act to address stratospheric ozone depletion. By 1987, in response to a dramatic seasonal depletion of the ozone layer over Antarctica, diplomats...
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    dates Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion "World Ozone Day 2021: Theme, Impact, Quotes, History, Ozone Depletion". SA News Channel. 2021-09-16. Retrieved...
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    acid rain deposition. •NO participates in ozone layer depletion. Nitric oxide reacts with stratospheric ozone to form O2 and nitrogen dioxide: •NO + O3...
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  • the key issues include: Climate Change; Contamination and Pollution; Ozone Depletion; Conservation; Invasive Species; Land Degradation; Waterway health;...
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    and may damage the natural environment (for example, climate change, ozone depletion or habitat degradation) or built environment (for example, acid rain)...
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    Lightning Nitrogen oxides Ozone depletion, including the phenomenon known as the ozone hole. Ozone Monitor Ozone Monitoring Instrument Ozone therapy Ozoneweb Ozonide...
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    Ultraviolet index (category Ozone depletion)
    areas with ice/water reflectivity and areas with above-average ozone layer depletion. While the UV index can be calculated from a direct measurement...
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    change. Ozone depletion occurs most heavily within the polar vortices – particularly over the Southern Hemisphere – reaching a maximum depletion in the...
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    flammability and the contribution of CFC and HCFC refrigerants to ozone depletion and that of HFC refrigerants to climate change. Refrigerants are used...
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    increase to the average UV intensity at the Earth's surface. Ozone depletion and the seasonal "ozone hole" have led to much larger changes in some locations...
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  • only fluorine) does not contribute to ozone depletion and therefore became more widely used as ozone-depleting refrigerants like R-22 were phased out...
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    of CO2. Gas dusters sold in many countries are ozone safe as they use "zero ODP" (zero ozone depletion potential) gases. For example, tetrafluoroethane...
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    Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.; Kiehl, Jeffrey T. (1 January 2014). "Acid rain and ozone depletion from pulsed Siberian Traps magmatism". Geology. 42 (1): 67–70. doi:10...
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    Chlorodifluoromethane (category Ozone depletion)
    Montreal Protocol in developed countries in 2020 due to the compound's ozone depletion potential (ODP) and high global warming potential (GWP), and in developing...
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    Tropospheric ozone depletion events are phenomena that reduce the concentration of ozone in the earth's troposphere. Ozone (O3) is a trace gas which has...
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  • include chlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons, both of which cause ozone depletion (although the latter much less so) and contribute to global warming...
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    respect to aragonite ≥ 80% of pre-industrial levels); stratospheric ozone depletion (less than 5% reduction in total atmospheric O3 from a pre-industrial...
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    - has greatly increased the concentration of Cl and Br, leading to ozone depletion. Each Cl or Br atom can catalyze tens of thousands of decomposition...
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