What are the harmful effects of the depletion of ozone layer?
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Answer:
ozone layer depletion is drastically affecting our environment.
Explanation:
The thinning of ozone layer causes ultraviolet rays to reach on earth which ultimately lead to green house effect, distortion of weather patterns, skin diseases and also adversely affecting crops and plants.
This highly useful ozone layer in the Stratosphere has be threatened by human activities. This layer is vital to human life study of ozone layer based on data obtained from satellites shos a decline in the total global azane.
According to various reports from world wide meteorolo organizations, ozone level in the stratosphere has decreased 50% near North and South poles, by 4% over Australia and N Zealand and 3% over the Indian subcontinent.
A "hole" is detected in the ozone layer over the continent d Antarctica. A large scale ozone depletion over Antarctica was dues very low temperature (-80°C or even lower), existence of the pole vertex that provides a containment wall and the presence d stratospheric clouds See Fig. 13.4.
The ultraviolet rays can enter the Earth's lower atmosphere 10 some extent through this ozone hole and may lead to disastrou consequences. The excessive radiation of ultraviolet rays of the Sun would render man and animals blind, cause skin cancer reduce immunity, cause crop and flora damage and destroy man aquatic and microscopic forms of life.
The intensity of sunlight varies according to seasons, so the amount of depletion varies with latitudes and seasons.