Researchers suggest ozone hole responsible for warming in southern Africa
Monday, October 14, 2013 - 09:20
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) —An international team of researchers has concluded that a two decade early summer surface-air warming in southern Africa is likely due to the ozone hole over Antarctica. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team describes how ozone hole size variations cause changes to wind patterns in the southern hemisphere and why they believe it leads to heating up southern African.