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Science 6 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5514, pp. 61 - 63
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060083
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Perspectives

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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Solving the PSC Mystery

Margaret A. Tolbert and Owen B. Toon

Until the discovery of the ozone hole in the mid-1980s, polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) were considered beautiful curiosities. In their Perspective, Tolbert and Toon describe the insights gained since then into how PSCs form and how they affect the destruction of stratospheric ozone.

The authors are at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. E-mail: tolbert{at}spot.colorado.edu

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