Sentences with phrase «new equilibrium state»

Even more thrilling, we discovered something new in the last year: identical molecules in the same initial state will choose several distinct pathways to a new equilibrium state.

Therefore, prior to achieving a new equilibrium state, there will be an imbalance, Q, between radiative forcing and climate response.

But it takes some time for the model systems to reach the new equilibrium state, because some of the feedbacks in the system (e.g., heat absorption as the ocean circulates) operate on fairly long timescales.

In case of achieving the 450 Scenario, that for instance requires all industrialised nations to reduce their GHG emissions by 25 - 40 percent between 1990 and 2020, Arctic summer sea ice would recover from around 2035 - quite sharply - and establish a new equilibrium state at around 2.5 million square kilometres of ice, still a loss of almost 2 million compared to the current situation.

In other words, even if we were to immediately stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere, the planet would warm another ~ 0.6 °C until it reached this new equilibrium state (confirmed by Hansen 2005).

«After 2,000 years, the oceans would have reached a new equilibrium state and we can compute the ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica from physical models,» study co-author Anders Levermann, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said in a statement.

In (a2) the balance is displaced with sufficient force to cause the ball to move to a new equilibrium state on the other arm.

There is currently a global energy imbalance, and reaching a new equilibrium state will take over a century.