Research has identified several design principles for creating effective interventions to achieve RAER from the highest - impact household behaviors that
occur on a decadal time scale (e.g. upgrading heating equipment, choosing a fuel - efficient vehicle, installing solar panels).
Not exact matches
A cold phase transition, which the historical record indicates can
occur quite rapidly with large secular temperature changes
on a
decadal time scale, would truly be a catastrophe.
I ask for a definition in part because you (Judith) seem to have defined «climate services» as
occurring on the «seasonal to
decadal time scale»... and things
on that
time scale in the past have always been called «weather».
Temperature increases in the thermocline
occur on the
decadal timescale whereas, over most of the abyss, it is the millennial
time scale that is relevant, and the strength of MOC in the channel matters for the intensity of heat uptake.