Halon dumps: a data point

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu Sep 14 20:33:26 2000

> At 05:17 PM 9/14/00 -0700, Eric wrote:
> >The link between antarctic ozone depletion and CFC emissions
> >is pretty well established by in-situ measurements.
>
> Please provide a reference for this, I follow several science journals
> (both refereed an non-refereed) and a definitive study that links the
> Chlorine ions in Antarctic ozone to CFC emissions should have shown up
> prominently either in one of them or in references by other studies.

I'll break my promise for this request for a reference.

>From an old file on the subject I find: Russell et al. 1996 Nature 379, 526.
"Satellite Confirmation of the Dominance of Chlorofluorocarbons in the
Global Stratospheric Chlorine Budget"
I'm sure there would be something more recent if I looked.

Numerous papers link chlorine ions to low ozone concentration through in situ
measurements. Any one of a hundred would do, like:
Newman et al. 1997 GRL 24, 2689
"Anomalously low ozone over the Arctic"

Eric
Received on Thu Sep 14 2000 - 20:33:26 BST