Indicators of Antarctic ozone depletion: 1979 to 2019

Bodeker, Greg E.; Kremser, Stefanie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5289-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5289-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5289-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

Research article

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06 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 06 Apr 2021

Indicators of Antarctic ozone depletion: 1979 to 2019

Greg E. Bodeker and Stefanie Kremser

Data sets

NIWA-BS Total Column Ozone Database Greg E. Bodeker, Jan Nitzbon, Jared Lewis, Alexander Schwertheim, Jordis S. Tradowsky, Stefanie Kremser https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1346424

BS Filled Total Column Ozone Database Greg E. Bodeker, Stefanie Kremser, Jordis S. Tradowsky https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3908787

BSVerticalOzone database Birgit Hassler, Stefanie Kremser, Greg Bodeker, Jared Lewis, Kage Nesbit, Sean Davis, Martyn Chipperfield, Sandip Dhomse, Martin Dameris https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1217184

Short summary

This paper presents measures of the severity of the Antarctic ozone hole covering the period 1979 to 2019. The paper shows that while the severity of Antarctic ozone depletion grew rapidly through the last two decades of the 20th century, the severity declined thereafter and faster than expected from declines in stratospheric concentrations of the chlorine- and bromine-containing chemical compounds that destroy ozone.