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Detecting recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer

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NATURE
Volume 549, Issue 7671, Pages 211-218

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/nature23681

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Funding

  1. NERC National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
  2. Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
  3. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Unit SHARP (Stratospheric Change and its Role for Climate Prediction)
  4. ESA CCI-Ozone project
  5. LABEX L-IPSL project [ANR-10-LABX-18-01]
  6. European project StratoClim [603557, FP7-ENV.2013.6.1-2]
  7. NERC CAST [NE/I030051/1]
  8. NERC [NE/J02449X/1, nceo020005, NE/N014375/1, NE/G014655/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  9. Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G014655/1, NE/N014375/1, nceo020005, NE/J02449X/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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As a result of the 1987 Montreal Protocol and its amendments, the atmospheric loading of anthropogenic ozone-depleting substances is decreasing. Accordingly, the stratospheric ozone layer is expected to recover. However, short data records and atmospheric variability confound the search for early signs of recovery, and climate change is masking ozone recovery from ozone-depleting substances in some regions and will increasingly affect the extent of recovery. Here we discuss the nature and timescales of ozone recovery, and explore the extent to which it can be currently detected in different atmospheric regions.

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