Sentences with phrase «losses over a period of decades»

At that point, according to the paper, ice loss could pick up steam, with big losses over a period of decades.

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This massive viral replication leads to a progressive loss of CD4 cells over a period of several years to as long as a decade.

The authors say that the rapid losses over the past two decades are a result of the sharp socio - economic changes the region experienced in this period, as previously untouched forests became criss - crossed by logging roads.

But the loss of ice in the Arctic over the same period is 500,000 sq km per decade.

In recent decades, much research on these topics has raised the questions of «tipping points» and «system flips,» where feedbacks in the system compound to rapidly cause massive reorganization of global climate over very short periods of time — a truncation or reorganization of the thermohaline circulation or of food web structures, for instance, caused by the loss of sea ice or warming ocean temperatures.

The integration over the time of (5) will give the total gain or loss of energy through the given area of the ocean or land at the given period of time (as a day, season, yea, decade, and so on).