Open AccessResearch Spotlight: Ozone recovery and climate change will affect the atmosphere near Earth's surface
Author(s) -
Kumar Mohi,
Tretkoff Ernie
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/eo091i024p00220-03
Subject(s) - stratosphere , ozone layer , ozone , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , altitude (triangle) , atmosphere (unit) , troposphere , climate change , tropospheric ozone , ozone depletion , meteorology , geography , geology , oceanography , geometry , mathematics
Ozone in the stratosphere (∼10–50 kilometers in altitude) helps protect life on Earth from harmful solar ultraviolet radiation. But at the lower altitudes in the troposphere, (0–10 kilometers in altitude), ozone is a major constituent of smog and has detrimental health effects. The stratospheric ozone layer had been depleted but recently has started to recover due to efforts to limit emissions of ozone‐ depleting chemicals.