The increasing threat to stratospheric ozone from dichloromethane

Chlorine-containing species deplete stratospheric ozone and while chlorofluorocarbons have been drastically reduced, dichloromethane concentrations have recently increased rapidly. Hossainiet al. show that continued growth at this rate could result in important delays to Antarctic ozone recovery.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ryan Hossaini, Martyn P. Chipperfield, Stephen A. Montzka, Amber A. Leeson, Sandip S. Dhomse, John A. Pyle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15962