| Ozone hole is
smaller than last year
The ozone hole
over Antarctica is apparently on the road to recovery.
Further Readings:
Monastersky, R.
1998. Antarctic ozone hole reaches record size. Science News
154(Oct. 17):246.
______. 1996. Drop
in ozone killers means global gain. Science News 149(March
9):151.
Information about
the ozone hole is available through NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Monitoring
and Diagnostic Laboratory at http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/.
Sources:
David J. Hofmann
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
325 Broadway, 3D116 DSRC
Boulder, CO 80303
Richard D.
McPeters
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mailstop Code 916
Greenbelt, MD 20771
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 17, October 23, 1999, p. 270. Copyright © 1999,
Science Service. |