{"id":106472,"date":"2020-05-03T16:27:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T23:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/that-unusually-large-ozone-hole-over-the-arctic-has-closed-up-again"},"modified":"2020-05-03T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T23:27:57","slug":"that-unusually-large-ozone-hole-over-the-arctic-has-closed-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/that-unusually-large-ozone-hole-over-the-arctic-has-closed-up-again","title":{"rendered":"That Unusually Large Ozone Hole Over The Arctic Has Closed Up Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/that-unusually-large-ozone-hole-over-the-arctic-has-closed-up-again3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-a-new-hole-in-the-ozone-layer-over-the-arctic\">Earlier this year<\/a>, the layer of ozone over the Arctic thinned out enough to be considered a serious sized hole. It wasn\u2019t exactly impressive compared with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-a-record-breaking-ozone-hole-over-antarctica-but-experts-say-not-to-worry\">southern cousin<\/a>, but it was certainly a lot bigger than we\u2019d ever seen it before.<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to surveillance by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/atmosphere.copernicus.eu\/cams-tracks-record-breaking-arctic-ozone-hole\">CAMS<\/a>), we can breathe a sigh of relief. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CopernicusECMWF\/status\/1253273035248975873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1253273035248975873&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Fnews%2Flargest-arctic-ozone-hole-on-record-closes-itself-up%2F\">It\u2019s healed up again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s great news for ecosystems below, which rely on concentrations of ozone gas high up in the stratosphere to act as a planetary-scale sunscreen against damaging showers of UV radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the layer of ozone over the Arctic thinned out enough to be considered a serious sized hole. It wasn\u2019t exactly impressive compared with its southern cousin, but it was certainly a lot bigger than we\u2019d ever seen it before. Now, according to surveillance by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), we can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}