Articles | Volume 24, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10305-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10305-2024
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18 Sep 2024
Research article |  | 18 Sep 2024

Beyond self-healing: stabilizing and destabilizing photochemical adjustment of the ozone layer

Aaron Match, Edwin P. Gerber, and Stephan Fueglistaler

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Earth's ozone layer absorbs incoming UV light, protecting life. Removing ozone aloft allows UV light to penetrate deeper, where it is known to produce new ozone, leading to "self-healing" that partially stabilizes total ozone. However, a photochemistry model shows that, above 40 km in the tropics, deeper-penetrating UV destroys ozone, destabilizing the total ozone. Photochemical theory reveals that this destabilizing regime occurs where overhead ozone is below a key threshold.
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