The graphs illustrate the size of the ozone hole in the Antarctic and three types of damaging gases, consisting of freon, NO2, and H2O2 , that destroyed the Antarctic ozone from 1980 to 2000.
Overall, it is evident that the size of the Antarctic ozone hole expanded more and more considerably. Notably, the figure for freon experienced a dramatic increase initially before falling, while the production of NO2 became the highest by the end of the 20 years.
Beginning with the size of the Antarctic ozone hole, there was a gradual increase. Its figure was approximately less than 50,000 square km in 1980. The number of square kilometres grew sharply to nearly 190,000 over 10 years. Additionally, there was a slight rise and a peak at nearly 230,000 in 2000.
In terms of production, the amount of freon started at 150,000 square km in 1980 before peaking at over 200,000 in 1985, and then experiencing a considerable drop to 20,000 square km in 2000. Subsequently, the square kilometres of NO2 witnessed a moderate gain to approximately 160,000 km, becoming the highest production on the list by the end of the period. Meanwhile, H2O2 underwent a slight upturn of nearly 20,000 km in 1990 and then jumped significantly until the end of the period.
