Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006
Inside Front Cover |
The Assessment consists of the Executive Summary, eight detailed chapters, and "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update", listed here with the names of the Lead Authors:
Chapter 1. | Long-Lived Compounds | Cathy Clerbaux (France) and Derek Cunnold (USA) |
Chapter 2. | Halogenated Very Short-Lived Substances | Kathy Law (France) and Bill Sturges (UK) |
Chapter 3. | Global Ozone: Past and Present | Martyn Chipperfield (UK) and Vitali Fioletov (Canada) |
Chapter 4. | Polar Ozone: Past and Present | Paul Newman (USA) and Markus Rex (Germany) |
Chapter 5. | Climate-Ozone Connections | Mark Baldwin (USA) and Martin Dameris (Germany) |
Chapter 6. | The Ozone Layer in the 21st Century | Greg Bodeker (New Zealand) and Darryn Waugh (USA) |
Chapter 7. | Surface Ultraviolet Radiation: Past, Present, and Future | Alkiviadis Bais (Greece) and Dan Lubin (USA) |
Chapter 8. | Halocarbon Scenarios, Ozone Depletion Potentials, and Global Warming Potentials | John Daniel (USA) and Guus Velders (Netherlands) |
Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update | David W. Fahey (USA) |
A formatted copy of the full report, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006 is available here. Alternatively, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) each serve a full formatted copy of the report. The figures associated with each chapter may be downloaded from the collection of chapter figures. The Executive Summary and "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update" are also posted here, in the sections below.
List of International Authors, Contributors, and Reviewers of the 2006 Assessment
Hundreds of scientists from around the world write and review the periodic WMO/UNEP "state-of-the-science" assessments of ozone depletion; hundreds of additional scientists author the studies that are referenced within them. As a result, the WMO/UNEP assessments are truly "global" documents, reflecting the thinking of the international scientific community.
310 international scientists from the developed and developing world contributed to the preparation and review of the latest WMO/UNEP assessment, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006. Listed here are the names of those individuals and the supporting organizations and staff.
Cover Information Inside Front Cover |
Text of the Executive Summary
A full formatted copy of the Executive Summary
The Executive Summary gives a synopsis of major scientific findings of the eight chapters of the full 2006 Assessment. This includes:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Recent Major Findings and Current Scientific Understanding
- Additional Scientific Evidence and Related Information
- Implications for Policy Formulation
Cover Information Inside Front Cover Inside Back Cover |
"Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update"
In the 2006 Assessment, the international scientific community included the section called "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update." In it, they answer several of the general questions that are most frequently asked by students, the general public, and leaders in industry and government. A draft of the update of this component of the 2006 Assessment was reviewed and discussed by the 77 scientists who attended the Panel Review Meeting for the 2006 report in June 2006 . In addition, subsequent contributions, reviews, or comments were provided by individuals listed on the publication's inside back cover .
A full formatted copy of the "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update"
A comprehensive poster is available. Individual components, including each question and associated figures, are available below:
- OZONE IN OUR ATMOSPHERE
- THE OZONE DEPLETION PROCESS
- What are the principal steps in stratospheric ozone depletion caused by human activities?
- What emissions from human activities lead to ozone depletion?
- What are the reactive halogen gases that destroy stratospheric ozone?
- What are the chlorine and bromine reactions that destroy stratospheric ozone?
- Why has an "ozone hole" appeared over Antarctica when ozone-depleting gases are present throughout the stratosphere?
- STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION
- CONTROLLING OZONE-DEPLETING GASES
- IMPLICATIONS OF OZONE DEPLETION
- STRATOSPHERIC OZONE IN THE FUTURE
Twenty Q&As About the Ozone Layer PosterADDITIONAL TOPICS
Citations.
The WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006, including the Executive Summary and "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer", was published in print in March 2007. The web version was prepared by Catherine A. Burgdorf of the NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado, in cooperation with Dr. A.R. Ravishankara and Dr. Christine A. Ennis of the NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division. This version was derived directly from the source of the printed edition and made public in April 2007. The Assessment may be reproduced or excerpted, without modification, provided the source is duly and conspicuously acknowledged in every instance as:
the whole report:
WMO (World Meteorological Organization) Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project - Report No. 50, 572pp., Geneva, 2007.
the Executive Summary:
Executive Summary: Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006, 39 pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 2006. [Reprinted from Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project - Report No. 50, 572pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 2007.]
"Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update":
Fahey, D.W. (Lead Author), Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update, 50 pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 2007. [Reprinted from Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project - Report No. 50, 572pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 2007.]
Copies.
Printed copies of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006 are available at no charge by writing to:
the whole report (includes the Executive Summary and "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update":
World Meteorological Organization
AREP Global Atmosphere Watch
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Geneva 2, CH-1211, Switzerland
the Executive Summary and "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2006 Update" booklets:
United Nations Environment Programme
Ozone Secretariat
P.O. Box 30552
Nairobi, Kenya