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Opinion: Stratospheric ozone – depletion, recovery and new challenges
Martyn P. Chipperfield
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School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Slimane Bekki
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
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The paper provides an informative and up-to-date overview of the progress made in understanding the evolution of the stratospheric ozone layer since the introduction of the Montreal Protocol to a broad and interested readership. It discusses new evidence that, despite the success of the Montreal Protocol, the stratospheric ozone layer will not necessarily return in the long term to the state it was in before the start of the release of CFCs (before 1970). New challenges arise, due to man-made climate change or natural extreme events like volcanic eruptions that have been shown to impact the ozone layer. The authors' appeal is therefore to continue to closely monitor the state of the stratospheric ozone layer, which is important for life, in the future.
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We give a personal perspective on recent issues related to the depletion of stratospheric ozone and some newly emerging challenges. We first provide a brief review of historic work on understanding the ozone layer and review ozone recovery from the effects of halogenated source gases and the Montreal Protocol. We then discuss the recent observations of ozone depletion from Australian fires in early 2020 and the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano in January 2022.
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