truby20
Fighting like a girl
That cycle actually points to the environment needed for the chemical reaction to occur.ylexot said:
Chlorine is responsible for the destruction of the Ozone molecule, O3. This reaction occurs in stratospheric clouds which form at temperatures <= -80C. These conditions are found only in the Antarctic winter, thats why it is a cyclical event. So yes, if our atmosphere continues to warm eventually the stratosphere will not get down to -80C...don't get excited though, we'll have enough to worry about down here in the troposphere
For a detailed explanation of the reaction
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Railroad
Routinely Derailed
I truly do want to know more about the mechanism from you, if you don't mind telling it. First, I might be confused. You're saying that chlorine, formed in stratospheric clouds at <= -80, destroys ozone. So that's a bad thing, right? Then if we warm up and we don't form those clouds, they stop destroying ozone. That would be a good thing, right? Now while all this is going on, you say we'll have enough to worry about down here in the troposphere. By that do you mean the climate here would have by then decayed to the point where we're all fried?truby20 said:That cycle actually points to the environment needed for the chemical reaction to occur.
Chlorine is responsible for the destruction of the Ozone molecule, O3. This reaction occurs in stratospheric clouds which form at temperatures <= -80C. These conditions are found only in the Antarctic winter, thats why it is a cyclical event. So yes, if our atmosphere continues to warm eventually the stratosphere will not get down to -80C...don't get excited though, we'll have enough to worry about down here in the troposphere
For a detailed explanation of the reaction
Thanks in advance for any answers you may post.