Translation for 'ozone layer' from English to Spanish

ozone layer

capa {f} de ozono

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ozone

ozono {m} [O3]quím.

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ozone meter

ozonómetro {m}tec.

layer

unverified capa {f}

to layer sth.

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• In the stratosphere incoming solar radiation creates the ozone layer.
• Damage to the ozone layer reduces plankton reproduction because of its resulting radiation.
• Depletion of the ozone layer by chemical refrigerants has also resulted in a cooling effect in the stratosphere.
• Upwelling of this water may have released massive hydrogen sulfide emissions into the atmosphere and would poison terrestrial plants and animals and severely weaken the ozone layer, exposing much of the life that remained to fatal levels of UV radiation.
• Such a close explosion could have damaged the Earth's ozone layer and caused the extinction of some ocean life (at its peak, a supernova of this size could have the same absolute magnitude as an entire galaxy of 200 billion stars).

• It is present in very low concentrations throughout the latter, with its highest concentration high in the ozone layer of the stratosphere, which absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
• It is also produced in the troposphere by the photolysis of ozone by light of short wavelength Since ozone absorbs strongly in the UV region of the spectrum, the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere functions as a protective radiation shield for the planet.
• An alternate extinction hypothesis suggested that a ten-second gamma-ray burst could have destroyed the ozone layer and exposed terrestrial and marine surface-dwelling life to deadly ultraviolet radiation and initiated global cooling.
• More recent accounts on the specific ozone layer destruction potential of NOx species are much less than earlier assumed from simplistic calculations, as "about 1.2 million tons" of natural and anthropogenic generated stratospheric NOx is believed to be formed each year according to Robert P.
• The resultant oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere and gave rise to the ozone layer.

• Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the protection of the ozone layer under the treaty will prevent over 280 million cases of skin cancer, 1.5 million skin cancer deaths, and 45 million cataracts in the United States.
• The magnetic field shields the Earth from the charged particles of the solar wind, and cosmic rays that would otherwise strip away the upper atmosphere (including the ozone layer that limits the transmission of ultraviolet radiation).