World Clouds: Polar stratospheric clouds

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Polar stratospheric clouds

Posted On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at a 10/14/2009 04:51:00 PM by ZonWu

Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), also known as nacreous clouds, are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (50,000–80,000 ft). They are implicated in the formation of ozone holes; their effects on ozone depletion arise because they support chemical reactions that produce active chlorine which catalyzes ozone destruction, and also because they remove gaseous nitric acid, perturbing nitrogen and chlorine cycles in a way which increases ozone destruction [...]