Huge Ozone Hole Discovered over Tropics
For about as long as I have been working with Margo she has been monitoring low ozone layers in the equatorial region and has noted how the situation has been getting worse. Now, finally, scientists have caught up. ‘University of Waterloo’s Professor Qing-Bin Lu has discovered a large, all-season ozone hole in the lower stratosphere over the tropics (30 deg N – 30 deg S). The depth of this tropical ozone hole is comparable to that of the well-known…
