[2] ADVISORY/The Weather Channel Expert is Key Player in International NASA Project Finding Sixty Percent Arctic Ozone Loss.National/International News Desks/Science Desks ADVISORY...for today (April 5) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Dr. Greg Forbes Tapped for Weather Analysis for Three-Month SOLVE THESEO-2000 Project WHO: Dr. Greg Forbes, severe weather expert at The Weather Channel, is available to discuss International Project findings of the NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. sponsored SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) and European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community sponsored Third European Stratospheric strat·o·spher·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the stratosphere. 2. Extremely or unreasonably high: "money borrowed at today's stratospheric rates of interest" Experiment on Ozone (THESEO-2000). WHAT: The biggest field measurement campaign to date to measure ozone amounts and changes in the Arctic stratosphere stratosphere (străt`əsfēr), second lowest layer of the earth's atmosphere. The level from which it extends outward varies with latitude; it begins c.5 1-2 mi (9 km) above the poles, c.6 or 7 mi (c. found that ozone losses of over 60 percent have occurred near 60,000 feet (18 km) in one of the coldest winters on record. This is one of the worst ozone losses at this altitude in the Arctic. These insights increase our ability to predict future ozone levels as chlorine levels decline as a result of the Montreal Protocol Montreal Protocol, officially the Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, treaty signed on Sept. 16, 1987, at Montreal by 25 nations; 168 nations are now parties to the accord. , and as greenhouse gases increase. Climate change in the stratosphere will likely enhance ozone losses in the Arctic winter in the coming decades as chlorine levels decrease. WHEN: April 5, 2000 |
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