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2010 Ozone Assessment cover

Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010

World Meteorological Organization Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project - Report No. 52

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

United Nations Environment Programme

World Meteorological Organization

European Commission


The WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, including the Executive Summary and "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer", was published in print March 2011. The web version was prepared by Catherine Burgdorf Rasco of the NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado, in cooperation with Dr. A.R. Ravishankara, Dr. Christine A. Ennis, and Debra Dailey-Fisher of the NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division. This version was derived directly from the source of the printed edition and published electronically April 2011. The Assessment may be reproduced or excerpted, without modification, provided the source is duly and conspicuously acknowledged in every instance as:

the whole report citation:

WMO (World Meteorological Organization), Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report No. 52, 516 pp., Geneva, Switzerland, 2011.

example Chapter citation:

Forster, P.M., and D.W.J. Thompson (Coordinating Lead Authors), M.P. Baldwin, M.P. Chipperfield, M. Dameris, J.D. Haigh, D.J. Karoly, P.J. Kushner, W.J. Randel, K.H. Rosenlof, D.J. Seidel, S. Solomon, G. Beig, P. Braesicke, N. Butchart, N.P. Gillett, K.M. Grise, D.R. Marsh, C. McLandress, T.N. Rao, S.-W. Son, G.L. Stenchikov, and S. Yoden, Stratospheric changes and climate, Chapter 4 in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report No. 52, 516 pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011.

the Executive Summary citation:

Executive Summary: Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, 46 pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011. [Reprinted from Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report No. 52, 516 pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011.]

"Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2010 Update" citation:

Fahey, D.W., and M.I. Hegglin (Coordinating Lead Authors), Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2010 Update, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, 72 pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011. [Reprinted from Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report No. 52, 516 pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011.]