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Montreal Protocol's impact on the ozone layer and climate
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation
Center, Davos, Switzerland
Jan Sedlacek
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation
Center, Davos, Switzerland
Timofei Sukhodolov
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation
Center, Davos, Switzerland
Ozone Layer and Upper Atmosphere Research Laboratory, St Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Arseniy Karagodin-Doyennel
Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Franziska Zilker
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland
Eugene Rozanov
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation
Center, Davos, Switzerland
Ozone Layer and Upper Atmosphere Research Laboratory, St Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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This paper describes the climate and atmosphere benefits of the Montreal Protocol, simulated with the state-of-the-art Earth system model SOCOLv4.0. We have added to and confirmed the previous studies by showing that without the Montreal Protocol by the end of the 21st century there would be a dramatic reduction in the ozone layer as well as substantial perturbation of the essential climate variables in the troposphere caused by the warming from increasing ozone-depleting substances.
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