ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY: Stratospheric 'Rocks' May Bode Ill for Ozone

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Science 9 February 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5506, pp. 962 - 963
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5506.962b

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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
Stratospheric 'Rocks' May Bode Ill for Ozone

Richard A. Kerr

Although no real ozone hole has opened over the Arctic like it has in the Antarctic, atmospheric chemists worry that that could change in the coming greenhouse era. And on page 1026 of this issue of Science, a team of researchers studying the Arctic stratosphere reports the discovery of bizarre particles in clouds there that could make arctic ozone more vulnerable to changing climate.

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REPORTS The Detection of Large HNO₃-Containing Particles in the Winter Arctic Stratosphere: D. W. Fahey, R. S. Gao, K. S. Carslaw, J. Kettleborough, P. J. Popp, M. J. Northway, J. C. Holecek, S. C. Ciciora, R. J. McLaughlin, T. L. Thompson, R. H. Winkler, D. G. Baumgardner, B. Gandrud, P. O. Wennberg, S. Dhaniyala, K. McKinney, Th. Peter, R. J. Salawitch, T. P. Bui, J. W. Elkins, C. R. Webster, E. L. Atlas, H. Jost, J. C. Wilson, R. L. Herman, A. Kleinböhl, and M. von König (9 February 2001)
Science 291 (5506), 1026. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1057265]
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