Sentences with phrase «comes into equilibrium»

The disequilibrium referred to comes from the fact that the ocean has a lot of thermal inertia and takes a long time to warm up, whereas the atmosphere has a short response time and quickly comes into equilibrium with any given ocean temperature, corresponding to the current amount of greenhouse gases.

When fossil CO2 increases atmospheric concentrations it comes into equilibrium with that in the oceans mostly over about a year, but continues slowly over around 10 years.

Hunt: It hasn't necessarily been resolved in so much as just come into an equilibrium.

It took millions of years for the seas to soak up this oxygen, but eventually they came into equilibrium with the atmosphere.

If you doubled CO2 and let the system come into equilibrium, the imbalance you'd measure from space would be zero — but there would still be about 4 W / m ** 2 of radiative forcing from the change in CO2.

For many a romance reader, the anchoring price for romance books was already low and digital prices are just now coming into equilibrium.

In the interview he mentioned the 11 degrees bit and we chatted for a while about how that was a very long term figure (such a climate sensitivity would require a very long time to come into equilibrium) and how we gave no odds at all of that being the case.

They suggested that the transient changes in El Nino (before the deeper water tapped by upwelling has warmed) may be different from the state of El Nino after the ocean has come into equilibrium.

Rock doesn't move during the short time scales needed for the surface to come into equilibrium, so the only vertical heat transport is by diffusion.

And even if there is little trend of solar in the past decades (there still is some discussion about an upswing in minimum solar strength), the impact of the higher - than - past level of solar intensity is delayed by the oceans and only now may come into equilibrium...

It takes a long time for the various phases of the system to come into equilibrium.

By most estimates it will take 1000 years from the time we stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere for the oceans and the atmosphere to come into equilibrium.

This is what is known as the «transient» climate sensitivity — «transient», in that the entire climate system has not yet come into equilibrium with the added energy.

The thermal inertia of the oceans had been noted earlier, e.g., Sawyer (1972), p. 26, remarked that to come into equilibrium «would take of the order of 100 yr, and in consequence the oceans impose a substantial lag on the response of world temperature...».

The continued increase in temperature after the time of CO2 stabilisation (Figure 9.16) is in part due to the later stabilisation of the other gases but is primarily due to the inertia in the climate system which requires several centuries to come into equilibrium with a particular forcing.

You are assuming that comparisons of Land TLT and Ocean TLT anomalies somehow indicate that they come into equilibrium for periods.

Arctic sea ice is declining rapidly, and some researchers predict that fresh meltwater will inhibit nutrient transport and limit biological activity, allowing the surface ocean to come into equilibrium with atmospheric CO2 and promoting acidification.

Acclimation Because wood expands and contracts depending on the level of moisture in the air, wood and some laminate flooring should sit in your house for two to three days before installation so it has a chance to come into equilibrium with your home's moisture content.

Not exact matches

When a mysterious woman comes into their lives, she upsets their delicate equilibrium sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making — or the ruin — of them all.

There is no surprise that the CO2 in the atmosphere winds up partially in the oceans, nor that the amount of CO2 going into or coming out of the oceans varies in time and space — that's simple equilibrium chemistry between the liquid (that is, dissolved) and gaseous phases, and does explain part of the variability about the long term rising trend.

You state in the response to # 10, ``... There is no surprise that the CO2 in the atmosphere winds up partially in the oceans, nor that the amount of CO2 going into or coming out of the oceans varies in time and space — that's simple equilibrium chemistry between the liquid (that is, dissolved) and gaseous phases...» Are the buffers a part of simple equilibrium chemistry, and where can I go to read up on this and how it pertains to the Models.

Over very long time periods such that the carbon cycle is in equilibrium with the climate, one gets a sensitivity to global temperature of about 20 ppm CO2 / deg C, or 75 ppb CH4 / deg C. On shorter timescales, the sensitivity for CO2 must be less (since there is no time for the deep ocean to come into balance), and variations over the last 1000 years or so (which are less than 10 ppm), indicate that even if Moberg is correct, the maximum sensitivity is around 15 ppm CO2 / deg C. CH4 reacts faster, but even for short term excursions (such as the 8.2 kyr event) has a similar sensitivity.

I assumed perhaps that Lindzen & Choi were making measurements during the time the system came back into equilibrium.

They seem to come into thermal equilibrium at, well, thermal equilibrium (constant temperature, independent of pressure, density, «gravity» etc), below the convection - dominated thermocline.

R: ``... they will come into thermal equilibrium at the same temperature through a process called detailed balance.»

The circular flow of heat is impossible, of course, but no net cooling occurs aside from tiny transfers of heat from the gas in or out of the wire as they come into a state of dynamic equilibrium.

What would be the «equilibrium explanation of my coming into LAX 10 years ago, from Hawaii, and watching the temperature INCREASE until 6,000 Feet ASL, where it was 80 F.

Thermal equilibrium doesn't mean the same temperature, if for example, a gas in getting hotter expands and rises becoming less dense and under less pressure it can move faster, it's using thermal energy to move, there's no energy lost, it's just become something else, or, as temperature relates to kinetic energy not thermal energy then heat capacity comes into play, as water can absorb a huge amount of thermal energy before there's any rise in temperature, or whatever, but if you're equating all «energy» to «heat» as thermal energy then that's a different idea altogether, not all energy is heat.

Once it comes to rest, with no vertical transport, it instantly starts to conduct heat around to bring the system into real thermal equilibrium, which is isothermal.

It includes the various stages you describe — a gas freely expanding into an empty chamber and coming back to equilibrium in the new, larger volume.

The only net exchange going on is within the bounds of the 2nd Law; for example, when pouring hot water into a cup already half filled with cold water the first amount of hotter will have its heat taken by the colder so reducing its own and it then becomes the colder to the hot water coming after it, even while it is still hotter than the colder first in the cup still taking its heat — and so the net exchange in this to equilibrium.