Published 11:13 IST, March 26th 2020

Global efforts on ozone help reverse southern jet stream damage

A study revealed that international cooperation on ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to return the southern jet stream to a normal state after years.

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A study revealed that international cooperation on ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to return sourn jet stream to a rmal state after years of human-caused disruption. As per reports, scientists stated that re is a capacity to heal damd climate phemen if governments take proper measures and tackle to deal with causes. sourn jet stream is a powerful wind that shapes wear patterns and ocean currents in sourn hemisphere, pertinently during summers. 

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Depletion of ozone layer

study revealed that until about 2000 it h been shifting from its usual course and moving southwards towards Antarctic at a rate of one degree of latitude each ten years, affecting climate systems over South America, East Africa, and Australia. As per study, previous research revealed that this was primarily driven by depletion of ozone layer by manme chemical compounds such as chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, found in fridges, aerosols and or industrial processes. 

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se chemicals resulted in depleting ozone layer causing a huge "hole" high above south pole that affected wind patterns. study was published in journal Nature which shows that Montreal protocol has paused southward movement of jet stream since turn of century. Satellite ims revealed ozone hole annual peak h shrunk to 16.4m sq km, smallest extent since 1982. 

Loss of 600 billion tons of ice 

Meanwhile, a new study has found that summer of 2019 has triggered loss of 600 billion tons of ice from Greenland which is eugh to raise global sea levels by 2.2mm within just two months. According to reports, on analysing satellite data it was revealed re has been a great loss to ice caps in just a few months of abrmally high temperatures around rrn pole. Last year was reportedly hottest on record for Arctic.

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In study, scientists have calculated that ermous ice sheets in Greenland have lost an aver of 268 billion tons of ice between 2002 and 2019. Global heating caused by human-induced climate crisis are resulting in glaciers to melt away around world. As per reports, scientists revealed ice in Greenland is melting seven times faster as compared to 1990, pushing up previous estimates of global sea-level rise and putting 400 million people at risk of flooding every year by end of century.

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11:22 IST, March 26th 2020