GCC: NOAA, NASA: Ozone hole modest despite optimum conditions for ozone depletion

[WetEV]

My understanding is that ozone constantly decomposes to O2, the rate varies tremendously depending on temperature and other conditions. Ambient sunlight at the 'ozone layer' constantly generates ozone which constantly decomposes to 02. CFC's act as a catalyst for the O3 to O2 conversion which reduces the ozone half life which causes an ozone 'hole'.

Sunlight has shortwave UV that splits O2 into two oxygen atoms. These combine with O2 to make O3, ozone. Longer UV wavelengths split O3 into O2 and O, almost all of which recombine to make O3, ozone. No sunlight, O3 is stable in the stratosphere.

[Oilpan4]

That's an incredibly scientific illiterate assumption.
Solar wind has effects all the way to ground level, this has been known since the 1960s and is one of the most pervasive denial fantasies in geophysics

[WetEV]

That's an incredibly scientific illiterate assumption.
Solar wind has effects all the way to ground level, this has been known since the 1960s and is one of the most pervasive denial fantasies in geophysics

Source?

[WetEV]

Just it's own incredibly unstable self, everything else in the atmosphere and solar wind protons.
It's appearing more and more likely that the hole was always there.

Incredibly unstable... So then the concentration drops to zero overnight? Right??

[goldbrick]

I'm not sure I buy the argument that O3 only degrades to O2 via UV radiation but I'll ask my son the physics Phd about it. Certainly when used in water disinfectant systems O3 rapidly degrades to O2 without sunlight but obviously that is a different environment than the stratosphere.

[WetEV]

I'm not sure I buy the argument that O3 only degrades to O2 via UV radiation but I'll ask my son the physics Phd about it. Certainly when used in water disinfectant systems O3 rapidly degrades to O2 without sunlight but obviously that is a different environment than the stratosphere.

You might start your son on this:

DOI: 10.1126/science.243.4892.763

[Oilpan4]

If it's common knowledge the the solar wind doesn't effect even the upper atmosphere it should be easy to prove right?
Prove that and I'll forget all about solar wind effects all the way to ground level.