Lecture 11 - Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Chapter 9 - Section 9.8

• What is ozone?
• What is happening to ozone?
• What causes ozone depletion?
• What will happen to ozone in the future?

Powerpoint Slides

Note: These slides include all material presented in class. I went through some quickly, but all of the material in the slides is part of the course syllabus and is examinable.

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Supplementary Material

Today's demonstrations: none

Today's animations: all images and animations shown in class are referenced in the slides above.

There are many many web pages discussing the science of ozone and ozone depletion. Here are just a few:

• The University of Cambridge's ozone hole tour: http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/index.html

• Environment Canada's ozone website: http://www.ec.gc.ca/ozone/default.asp?lang=En&n=9090CC46-1

• NASA's ozone resource web site: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/ozone_resource_page.html

• NASA's ozone hole watch with lots of links: http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/SH.html

• The US Environmental Protection Agency's ozone web site - this has links to many other sites: http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/index.html

• The latest WMO/UNEP report "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010": http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/ozone_2010/ozone_asst_report.html

• ... including "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer": http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/ozone_2010/documents/twentyquestions.pdf

• What Would have Happened to the Ozone Layer if CFCs had not been Regulated? http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003586/index.html

• Website for our spring 2013 Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign, which begins on February 25th: http://acebox.uwaterloo.ca/eureka/

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