Graph Showing Antarctic Ozone Decreasing by 60% from the 1950s to the 1980s

  • Released Friday, April 9, 1999
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During the spring of 1985, British researchers using ground-based instruments measured dramatic changes in the ozone layer. As much as sixty percent of the ozone over Antarctica was rapidly disappearing each spring.

Total Ozone over Antarctica from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s

Video slate image reads, "The Upper Atmosphere Research SatelliteGraph AnimationsA graph showing as much as 60% of the ozone over Antarctica is rapidly disappearing each spring".

Video slate image reads, "The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
Graph Animations
A graph showing as much as 60% of the ozone over Antarctica is rapidly disappearing each spring".

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This page was originally published on Friday, April 9, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM EDT.

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