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This short video and new assessment packet reveals the remarkable success of the worldwide action to phase out ozone-depleting substances, reporting that the ozone layer is on track for recovery to the 1980 benchmark levels by mid-century.

Minimum concentration of ozone in the southern hemisphere for each year from 1979-2013 (there is no data from 1995). Each image is the day of the year with the lowest concentration of ozone. A graph of the lowest ozone amount for each year is shown. Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/M. Radcliff

Worldwide action to phase out ozone-depleting substances has resulted in remarkable success, according to a new assessment by 300 international scientists. The stratospheric ozone layer, a fragile shield of gas that protects Earth from harmful ultraviolet light, is on track to recovery over the next few decades.

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The Assessment for Decision-Makers, a summary of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2014, provides new information to affirm that the 1987 international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has successfully resulted in global international policies to reduced levels of ozone-depleting substances.

The report is conducted by the World Meteorological Organ Remote Machine Monitoring & Maintenance System ization, or WMO, and the United Nations Environmental Program, or UNEP, and co-sponsored by NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, and the European Commission. Science teams from these organizatio Industrial IoT Router/Gateway ns and other countries have been monitoring the ozone layer on the ground, by balloon and with a variety of satellite instruments dating back to NASA’s Nimbus 4 satellite, launched in 1970.

The most current ozone hole satellite data comes from the Ozone Monitoring and Profiler Suite instrument on the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, known as Suomi NPP, and the Ozone Monitoring Instrument and Microwave Limb Sounder on NASA’s Aura satellite.

“It is particularly gratifying to report that the ozone layer is on track for recovery to 1980 benchmark levels by mid-century,” said Paul A. Newman, chief scientist for atmospheres at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a co-chair of the WMO/UNEP report. “Many of these early signs of ozone improvements are due to decades of work and contributions by NASA and NOAA instruments and scientists.”

Ozone depleting substances are also powerful greenhouse gases. The Montreal Protocol provided a double benefit: stopping ozone depletion, and slowing the growth of greenhouse gases. “Substitutes for ozone depleting substances are ozone safe, but many are powerful greenhouse gases. These substitutes could offset the climate gains achieved by the Montreal Protocol in the future,” Newman said.

The Assessment for Decision-Makers, a summary of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2014 is the first comprehensive update in four years. The full report will be available in early 2015.

PDF Copy of the 2014 Assessment: Assessment for Decision-Makers from UNEP/WMO (pdf)

Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/M. Radcliff

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