🌏Good news!!!🌎🌍 The largest ozone hole observed in the Arctic closes ❗

🌏Good news!!!🌎🌍
The largest ozone hole observed in the Arctic closes ❗
By: Info Patagonia April 25, 2020

The reason for his disappearance has nothing to do with the reduction of pollution that allowed confinement due to the coronavirus, but rather with a heat wave, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said this Saturday on his Twitter account I love you so much

The unprecedented hole in the stratozone layer over the Arctic recorded in recent weeks was closed in recent days, the reason for its disappearance has nothing to do with the reduction of pollution that allowed confinement due to the coronavirus, but rather with a heat wave, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said this Saturday on his Twitter account.

" The polar vortex was divided, allowing the break of ozone-rich air in the Arctic, a large-scale persistent cyclone in the area located in the middle and high troposphere and the stratosphere ", Copernicus explains and assures that " the situation continued his forecast from last week ".


Copernicus adds that while the polar vortex seems to have not yet come to an end and will be reformed in the next few days, ozone values will not return to the very low levels seen in early April.

Everything was discovered at the end of March when an extraordinary phenomenon left the scientific community completely dislocated. An enormous hole in the ozone layer was detected at the North Pole, which protects Earth from most of the ultraviolet radiation of the Sun.

In early April, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed its existence using data from Copernicus's Sentinel-5 P satellite.


Although it was not an isolated phenomenon because there had already been 'mini holes' over the north pole on other occasions, if its size (a million square kilometers) and its duration was unreleased.

The main theory that explains its formation goes through unusual atmospheric conditions, DPA points out.

According to scientists, unusually freezing temperatures in the stratosphere have caused levels to collapse and open this hole in the stratospheric ozone layer over the Arctic this spring, just as it has occurred for decades in Antarctica after the end of the Southern winter.


Normally, minimum temperatures in the Arctic tend to be lower than in Antarctica because they don't reach such extreme levels.

But, this year powerful winds around the north pole caught cold air, this phenomenon is known as 'polar vortex'. The loss of this gas reached 30 percent in the North Pole vertical, with temperatures below-80 degrees Celsius.

Normally, the stratosphere over the Arctic is too warm and the polar vortex is too unstable for those conditions to be given.

The ozone layer hole in Antarctica escalated decades ago by industrial emissions of ozone-destroying CFC gases, a protective gas of life on Earth against ultraviolet rays.

The ban on these compounds in the Montreal Protocol in 1989 allowed that unusual phenomenon in the Arctic -- to decrease today.