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Steitz
Headquarters, Washington March 4, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1730)
John Bluck
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
(Phone: 650/604-5026)
Robert Gutro
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-4044)
RELEASE: 02-37
"In 1993 the Arctic winter was not one of the coldest winters
on record, and yet the ozone loss was one of the greatest
that we've seen," Tabazadeh said. "This was due to the
sulfurous Pinatubo clouds facilitating the destruction of
additional ozone at lower altitudes where polar stratospheric
clouds cannot form."