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The hole truth

What's news (and what's not) about the ozone hole.

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Figure 1: Satellite maps of total ozone over Antarctica on 24 September, when the ozone hole is near its annual peak, in 1980, 1981, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

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Solomon, S. The hole truth. Nature 427, 289–291 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/427289a

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