Sentences with phrase «reach its equilibrium value»

Another way of putting it: Just like H2O (outside runaway), the C gain by the atmosphere from C loss from permafrost «penultimately» reaches an equilibrium value that varies as a continuous function of the imposed forcing, rather than having a discontinuous jump.

On the left, half of all farms adopt the practice over 5 years, and it takes 5 years for carbon to reach its equilibrium value.

If it's going into ocean heating (ocean heat content), that is enough mass that it might take a while to actually reach an equilibrium value.

Not exact matches

But I'm of the school that says, if that is proven — and it is, I think, a little bit in the marketplace — if it is proven to be the case, then people will bid up the prices of value stocks and bid down the prices of growth stocks until they reach an equilibrium and then future returns will be the same.

The problems with associating sensitivity with a temperature in 2100 are twofold: first, at the time we reach CO2 doubling, the temperature will lag behind the equilibrium value due to thermal inertia, especially in the ocean (thought experiment — doubling CO2 today will not cause an instant 3C jump in temperatures, any more than turning your oven on heats it instantly to 450F), and secondly, the CO2 level we are at in 2100 depends on what we do between now and then anyway, and it may more than double, or not.

The first rate seems to be far slower because there are no winds in the stratosphere so that equilibrium can only be reached by diffusion of heat which is really slow; on the other hand we are pumpimg around 1.5 ppm of CO2 into the troposphere every year, over a base value of around 380 ppm.

At the same temperature, at pH - values between 7 and 9, CO2 reaches 99 % chemical equilibrium with water and calcium carbonate in about 100 seconds (Dreybrodt et al., 1996).

Until an equilibrium temperature is reached, present day observations will not tell us the exact value of the climate's sensitivity to CO2....»

Well, about 850 years for Max's calculation, except the equilibrium value is a theoretical abstraction and can never be reached.

OHC is a direct factor in the time taken to reach equilibrium, and surface temperatures are the governing value for the effects of reaching equilibrium.

This can lead to nearly 7 C warming after equilibrium is reached with the central IPCC sensitivity value.

But then I read IPCC FAR WG1 s. 1.2.1, which includes this stunning nugget: [quote -RCB- The concentration [of CO2 following a pulse] will actually never return to its original value, but reach a new equilibrium level, about 15 percent of the total amount of CO2 emitted will remain in the atmosphere.