Sentences with phrase «atmospheric lifetimes ranging»

Currently only ozone - depleting substances with atmospheric lifetimes ranging from a year to over 100 years, are controlled because they linger in the atmosphere long enough to reach the upper atmosphere, called the stratosphere.

Not exact matches

GEM, with an atmospheric lifetime in the range of 5 — 24 months, can be transported across long distances to remote locations before conversion to divalent Hg species by atmospheric oxidation processes (4).
Ray (7): I strongly agree, but I find this is a non-trivial challenge in climate communication, namely getting newcomers to understand that the current situation is quite urgent (current and locked - in emissions, long CO2 atmospheric lifetime, feedbacks, etc.) but that there's still a huge range of possible future outcomes.
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