Ozone layer: References & Edit History
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General treatments describing the ozone layer and its processes include Andrew E. Dessler, The Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozone (2000); World Meteorological Organization, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2014 (2007); and David W. Fahey and Michaela I. Hegglin, Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2010 Update (2010).
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Harry E. Preble Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Article title updated for style. | Nov 11, 2026 | ||
| Invalidated site: Open Oregon Educational Resources - Environmental Biology - Ozone. | Oct 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Bitesize - Why dont we talk about the ozone layer anymore? | Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Oregon Educational Resources - Environmental Biology - Ozone. | Apr 04, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Oncology - Ozone Layer Depletion and Emerging Public Health Concerns - An Update on Epidemiological Perspective of the Ambivalent Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure. | Dec 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Western Kentucky University - TopScholar - Relationship Between Emissions of Human Activities and Ozone Layer Depletion (PDF). | Sep 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Journal of Advance Research in Science and Engineering - Effects of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) on ozone and its role in deplication of ozone layer (PDF). | Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The ozone layer and metered dose inhalers (PDF). | May 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science Advances - Role of the stratosphere in the global mercury cycle. | Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Environmental Protection Agency - Basic Ozone Layer Science. | Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - Ozone layer destruction and ways of its recovery (PDF). | Jan 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nasa Science - The Ozone Layer. | Dec 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Penn State Law eLibrary - Thinning Air, Better Beware: Chlorofluorocarbons and The Ozone Layer. | Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: European Environment Agency - What is the current state of the ozone layer? | Aug 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Meteorological Society - Atmospheric Ozone. | Jan 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: UN Environment Programme - What is the ozone layer? | Oct 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Australian Government - Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - The ozone layer. | Aug 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Ozone Layer. | May 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: UCAR Center for Science Education - The Ozone Layer. | Feb 24, 2023 | ||
| Updated the year in which the ozone layer is expected to recover over the Arctic and Antarctic regions. | Jan 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Depletion of the Ozone Layer. | Nov 23, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Ozone layer. | Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Noted that studies expect ozone concentrations to return to 1980 levels above Antarctica by about 2060 and above the Arctic by about 2034. | Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| Noted that 99 percent of the ozone-depleting chemicals regulated by the Montreal Protocol have been phased out since the treaty's adoption in 1987. | May 26, 2020 | ||
| Noted that declines in concentrations of lower-stratospheric ozone have outpaced gains in concentrations upper-stratospheric ozone. | Feb 16, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Environmental Protection Agency - Health and Environmental Effects of Ozone Layer Depletion. | Oct 26, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 10, 2016 | ||
| Text added noting that Antarctica's ozone hole will decrease in size to below 20.7 million square km by 2040. | May 15, 2015 | ||
| Photo of ozonesonde added. | May 15, 2015 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | May 04, 2015 | ||
| Text added noting slight ozone increases in the stratosphere that were observed in 2014. | Sep 12, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Ozone layer. | Feb 13, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Ozone Layer. | Dec 24, 2013 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Jan 19, 2011 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Jan 19, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How the Ozone Layer Works. | Dec 25, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment - Ozone Layer. | Feb 13, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Ozone Science: The Facts Behind the Phaseout. | Feb 13, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Ozone Layer. | Feb 13, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Oct 18, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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