Sentences with phrase «operating on time scales»

This question is addressed for suggested solar forcing mechanisms operating on time scales from billions of years to decades.

Little is known about the feedbacks operating on these time scales and for high CO2 climates.

In the atmosphere these processes operate on time scales of hours to days.

The cyclic ocean currents (for example) operate on time scales similar to the solar cycle.

Atmospheric processes that generate internal variability are known to operate on time scales ranging from virtually instantaneous (e.g., condensation of water vapour in clouds) up to years (e.g., troposphere - stratosphere or inter-hemispheric exchange).

Not exact matches

Some pundits and companies have found the cost prohibitive for firms operating on a smaller scale than behemoth Google, but at least one tech company is willing to take the idea and run with it — big time.

Although these innovations are operating on different time scales — MPLs are an immediate consideration, and blockchain - based supply chains could take a few years to mature — wholesale bankers need to get up to speed on each, at an equal degree of urgency.

«Tracing and controlling electrons in solids will enable us to identify the most promising routes for novel ultrafast electronics and photonics operating on sub-fs time scales and at Petahertz clocking rates,» Goulielmakis said.

For instance, long - period ocean waves called Kelvin waves, which operate on the same time scale as El Niños, could also be a factor.

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program promotes transformational advances in science and technology for computationally and / or data intensive, large - scale research projects through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) centers, operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

«Our results show, for the first time, how the density wave operates on a cloud - cloud scale, and how it promotes and prevents star formation in spiral arms,» Aalto said.

«Operating on a sliding tuition scale that slides all the way to zero when necessary, we are a learning community of about forty - five children, with many from low - income families, and eight full - time teachers supported by numerous talented and creative volunteers and interns.

At the time, there happened to be a veterinary clinic that operated on a sliding income scale, so you paid what you could afford, dependent on income.

Whether it's me working with Tommie Smith or me working in the world of magic with Derek DelGaudio or with biologists, it's really about connecting different systems and learning how to operate on different time scales.

Many contemporary approaches to conceptual art have become nearly synonymous with vastness, and at times just as romantic, in the sense that the experience of an idea is expected to operate on a scale of largeness, and infinitude.

They operated on all of the levels that I wanted them to — scale, the complexity of subject, the treatment [of paint and technique]-- all of those things seemed to come together in those two pictures in a way that I had always been struggling with before, but had hit right on the mark at that time.»

The carbonized patterns appearing throughout the gallery trace histories of energy expenditure and modulate the register of the legibility of the heating element from the practical and material to the grammatically and symbolically charged; networks of modern electrical consumption are juxtaposed by the spiral - as - trace to cyclical, sun - gazing longevities operating on scales removed by orders of magnitude from those of commodity time.

Buildings are complex networks of diverse systems operating on multiple scales across time.

The oceanic boundary layer (the thermocline), with its much more vast reservoirs of heat, operates on much longer time scales.

Why don't you consider that you might have a dozen of Lorenz - type attractors, all operating on a certain spectrum of time and space scales, and intertwined to different degrees via their coefficients and «forcing» terms?

If we decide, as Lomborg suggests, to focus exclusively on a handful of top priorities at the expense of all others, especially those that are more complex and operate over longer time scales, such as Climate Change, we are doing little more than arranging the Titanic's proverbial deck - chairs.

Your finding of a «long tail» to the remaining 7 to 20 % of the CO2 seems to hinge entirely on the ocean - acidity / CaCO3 argument and a neglect of other chemical and terrestrial sequestration processes which operate on short time scales.

Going back to Ed Davies and Rasmus» replies at # 2: We know that there are feedbacks and system responses (e.g. ocean convection and advection of energy) that operate on various time scales.

Other feedbacks in the climate system also operate on longer time scales, e.g. permafrost carbon.

It's like worrying about the state of security of Soviet nuclear warheads, but where you have no idea what kind of terrorists there might be out there and what their capabilities are — and on what time scales they operate.

Standard error involves both natural variability (including that not well understood because it operates on long time scales, and therefore has not been observed during the period of modern technology) as well as measurement error (or error / uncertainty in the proxies).

The various «climate - controlling» factors operate on very different time - scales.

But on larger scales (both in space and time) the earth is a planet of our local star; the sun is our only source of (purely radiative) energy; we have an atmosphere which clearly operates to reduce diurnal variations in temperature (which on black body basis would otherwise be huge, on human scale) and the radiative budget must always be exactly in balance.

Just the right amount of negative feedback can produce homeostasis, neatly stabilizing things, but often the various competing processes operate on different time scales, making it hard to keep things balanced.

By «falling towards equilibrium» I mean that equilibrium is never achieved but always oscillates around an equilibrium point, with each variable presumably operating on a number of different time scales.

Ocean dynamics operate on a scale and time scale which preclude certainty and, as you point out in your paragraph above, this is where uncertainty reigns.

Note that I am not necessarily claiming that this is the feedback operating on the long time scales associated with global warming — only that it is the average feedback involved in the climate fluctuations occurring during the period when the satellite was making its measurements.

Ocean «weather» (recall weather is chaotic) operates on a time - scale comparable to that of atmospheric «climate» (also chaotic).

These rapid changes in atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations are also recorded during the Heinrich Stadials of MIS 3, demonstrating an important mechanism that operates on centennial time scales during the glacial and deglaciation, which may point to important thresholds in the global carbon cycle.

We also obtain an empirical estimate of f = 2 - 4 for the fast feedback processes (water vapor, clouds, sea ice) operating on 10 - 100 year time scales by comparing the cooling due to slow or specified changes (land ice, CO2, vegetation) to the total cooling at 18K.

At this time, the cheapest generating system is based on coal and gas — with relatively small scale opportunistic generation using hydro, landfill gas, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc depending on resource availability, local construction and operating costs and local distribution costs that vary with technology.

Other components of the climate system, such as the ocean and the large ice sheets, tend to operate on longer time scales.

... even if the [estimated 6.1 Wm - 2 / K] do [es] represent feedbacks operating on intraseasonal to interannual time scales it is not obvious how they relate to long - term climate sensitivity.

This portion of the tariff is calculated based on the number of full time employees or an operating budget scale.

GameOn is built on AWS's cloud infrastructure and works on any operating system, enabling you to scale quickly and invest more time in what you do best — designing great games.

We've been hearing for over a year now that Microsoft is working on a Project Andromeda — an adaptable operating system that scales in real time depending on the active screen it uses.