----- (the other approach I was thinking of involved considering how the lapse
rate equilibrates so that the net flux is constant over some thickness for the whole LW spectrum (approximately true for equilibrium above the tropopause).
Not exact matches
Just as stock prices revert to the value of their discounted cash ows, in exchange
rates, there's a similar
equilibrating force and that's relative purchasing power.
Eventually the system
equilibrates, but with a slower
rate of circulation of Cub fans through the El and to their homes.
The reasons are also based on the physics, which require that initial equilibration involves the rapidly
equilibrating sinks in the ocean mixed layer and some terrestrial sources, while the overall decay
rate that involves slower equilibration with larger sinks is much slower.
This makes sense because it takes time to
equilibrate an excess of CO2 in the atmosphere with the ocean, and the shallow ocean responds faster than intermediate or deep water, so the ratio of the land to marine signals is therefore proportional to the carbon emissions
rate.
If the CO2 concentration were to be stabilized to 400pmm from now on, the sea levels would be expected continue to rise for a couple more centuries — though at a slowing
rate — before they
equilibrate to current concentrations.
An adiabatically isolated gas initially prepared in a state with an adiabatic lapse
rate will thermally
equilibrate due to the internal conduction of heat within the gas by all mechanisms and relax to precisely this state.
That's why the thermodynamic argument is so powerful — it is very difficult to explain how heat delivered to the top of any truly
equilibrated air column would spontaneously redistribute to maintain a vertical lapse
rate and not enable a heat loop and / or any number of PMM2Ks.
I took a block of ice put it in a 6 day
rated cooler in the shade, allowed 2 hours for temperatures to
equilibrate.