Sentences with phrase «relatively stable configuration»

The future is likely subject to a huge addition in greenhouse forcing, whereas the past was in a relatively stable configuration.

Not exact matches

That may not seem surprising, but the team did note one shocker: Craters left by high - speed drops started out with relatively steep sides but within seconds they avalanched to form slopes with a more stable configuration — a previously unstudied process that widened the crater and made it shallower (image above, where depth is exaggerated by a factor of three).

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

E.g., «The threshold separating stable and unstable climate regimes represents a relatively small departure from the modern ice sheet configurations,» according to McManus et al. (1999), p. 1.