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Polar Ozone Depletion (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Molina Mario J.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199617781
Subject(s) - stratosphere , ozone depletion , ozone , ozone layer , southern hemisphere , northern hemisphere , atmospheric sciences , astrobiology , environmental science , polar , meteorology , climatology , photochemistry , chemistry , geology , geography , physics , astronomy
Cause and result can be geographically widely separated . This fact is corroborated by the finding that the annually recurring ozone hole over Antarctica, which has been steadily increasing in size since 1985, is predominantly due to anthropogenic emissions from the Northern Hemisphere. How the realization dawned that it is primarily the chlorine atoms released by photochemical reactions of CFCs in the upper stratosphere that destroy the ozone shield is described by M. J. Molina in his Nobel Lecture.