Ozone depletion, ultraviolet radiation, climate change and prospects for a sustainable future

PW Barnes, CE Williamson, RM Lucas… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in stratospheric ozone and climate over the past 40-plus years have
altered the solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation conditions at the Earth's surface. Ozone depletion …

Detecting recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer

MP Chipperfield, S Bekki, S Dhomse, NRP Harris… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
As a result of the 1987 Montreal Protocol and its amendments, the atmospheric loading of
anthropogenic ozone-depleting substances is decreasing. Accordingly, the stratospheric …

Stratospheric ozone, UV radiation, and climate interactions

GH Bernhard, AF Bais, PJ Aucamp… - Photochemical & …, 2023 - Springer
This assessment provides a comprehensive update of the effects of changes in stratospheric
ozone and other factors (aerosols, surface reflectivity, solar activity, and climate) on the …

Young people's burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions

J Hansen, M Sato, P Kharecha… - Earth System …, 2017 - esd.copernicus.org
Global temperature is a fundamental climate metric highly correlated with sea level, which
implies that keeping shorelines near their present location requires keeping global …

The Montreal Protocol protects the terrestrial carbon sink

PJ Young, AB Harper, C Huntingford, ND Paul… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The control of the production of ozone-depleting substances through the Montreal Protocol
means that the stratospheric ozone layer is recovering 1 and that consequent increases in …

Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011

GL Manney, ML Santee, M Rex, NJ Livesey, MC Pitts… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Chemical ozone destruction occurs over both polar regions in local winter–spring. In the
Antarctic, essentially complete removal of lower-stratospheric ozone currently results in an …

Global increase of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons from 2010 to 2020

LM Western, MK Vollmer, PB Krummel, KE Adcock… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that would ultimately be released to the
atmosphere was banned globally in 2010 under the Montreal Protocol. Here we use …

Ozone–climate interactions and effects on solar ultraviolet radiation

AF Bais, G Bernhard, RL McKenzie… - Photochemical & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
This report assesses the effects of stratospheric ozone depletion and anticipated ozone
recovery on the intensity of ultraviolet (UV) radiation at the Earth's surface. Interactions …

Solar ultraviolet radiation in a changing climate

CE Williamson, RG Zepp, RM Lucas… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
The projected large increases in damaging ultraviolet radiation as a result of global
emissions of ozone-depleting substances have been forestalled by the success of the …

Stratospheric ozone depletion due to nitrous oxide: influences of other gases

RW Portmann, JS Daniel… - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The effects of anthropogenic emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2),
methane (CH4) and the halocarbons on stratospheric ozone (O3) over the twentieth and …