Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7153-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7153-2020
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19 Jun 2020
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Modelling the potential impacts of the recent, unexpected increase in CFC-11 emissions on total column ozone recovery

James Keeble, N. Luke Abraham, Alexander T. Archibald, Martyn P. Chipperfield, Sandip Dhomse, Paul T. Griffiths, and John A. Pyle

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GOME/SCIAMACHY/GOME2 Merged Total Ozone Uni Bremen https://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/gome/wfdoas/merged/wfdoas_merged.html

Total column ozone Bodeker Scientific http://www.bodekerscientific.com/data/total-column-ozone

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The Montreal Protocol was agreed in 1987 to limit and then stop the production of man-made CFCs, which destroy stratospheric ozone. As a result, the atmospheric abundances of CFCs are now declining in the atmosphere. However, the atmospheric abundance of CFC-11 is not declining as expected under complete compliance with the Montreal Protocol. Using the UM-UKCA chemistry–climate model, we explore the impact of future unregulated production of CFC-11 on ozone recovery.
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