Normally it's understood to take many hundreds of years for climate to
reach equilibrium after a doubling of CO2.
Climate and terrestrial variables (LAI, temperature, precipitation)
reach equilibrium after approximately 20 years of model spin up.
The molecules coming to rest — at least on the macroscopic level — is the result of thermalization, or of
reaching equilibrium after they have achieved uniform saturation within the system.
Not exact matches
My own experience in parenting supports some of this, but I believe that if the family wants to, they can
reach equilibrium quickly
after breastfeeding has terminated.
It represents the warming at the earth's surface that is expected
after the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere doubles and the climate subsequently stabilizes (
reaches equilibrium).
Although ultraviolet light from stars would break apart water molecules,
after hundreds of millions of years an
equilibrium could be
reached between water formation and destruction.
It will take decades or even centuries
after humans stop burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases for the ocean to
reach equilibrium.
After warming stops, an
equilibrium will be
reached in which the frequency of water molecules entering the atmosphere from the liquid will equal the frequencey of molecules entering the liquid from the atmosphere resulting in an
equilibrium of transfer of water molecules and (if atmosphere and liquid are the same temperature) of energy transfers.
This suggests that the stores of vitamin D that infants accumulate as fetuses are used up within the first eight weeks of life,
after which their vitamin D levels
reach equilibrium with what they continue to acquire from sunshine, breast milk or supplements.
During the period of time
after an
equilibrium begins to change due to a change in a forcing (huge fast CO2 release for example), the planet is not in
equilibrium; it is changing until the new
equilibrium is
reached.
Even
after 30 years of integration, no
equilibrium for the deep salinity is
reached.
It will help understand why
equilibrium isn't
reached until long, long
after the carbon quits being added by burning fossil fuels.
Equilibrium is not
reached for many, many hundreds of years — during which the planet heats up, and continues to heat up for a long while
after the extra carbon stops being added.
Can you show me some documentation that theres is indeed
reached equilibrium so fast
after temperature change?
it probably would end up slightly warmer the next day, and very slightly warmer the day
after, and so on until it
reached a new slightly warmer
equilibrium
Well if you want to go there then yes actually, it probably would end up slightly warmer the next day, and very slightly warmer the day
after, and so on until it
reached a new slightly warmer
equilibrium.
After a (much) longer period, the 13CO2 will also
reach equilibrium.
BTW — calculating
equilibrium sensitivity may be the purist's gaol, but since we will only ever be able to
reach equlibrium long
after every last carbon atom has been well and truly oxidised, then transient sensistivity is the only useful number for any practical and / or policy repsonse.
He asserts that gravity will create a thermal lapse rate that is there in his isolated ideal gas in a near - Earth gravitational field in thermal
equilibrium — the condition that an air column will
reach after all irreversible relaxation processes such as conduction, convection, and radiation have completed.
Slow enough that we can ignore it at least to the extent that we can ask what state we are likely to find a gas initially prepared in an arbitrary initial condition —
after waiting just long enough for hydrostatic
equilibrium to be established but not long enough for thermal
equilibrium (which is isothermal and strict maximum entropy) to be
reached via internal conduction.
19 seconds
after the initial injection, the water levels in both sides had stopped moving, and had
reached a new
equilibrium.
This can lead to nearly 7 C warming
after equilibrium is
reached with the central IPCC sensitivity value.
``... atmosphere - ocean
equilibrium,
reached many centuries
after emissions cease....
When you put a 1 kW fan heater into a room, the air it'll put out will virtually immediately be at 60C, but the room will heat quite slowly, until
after maybe an hour it
reaches equilibrium, say at 22C.