Sentences with phrase «systems on all time scales»

A central aspect of the study was to investigate the atomic system on time scales that are relevant for the establishment of ergodicity.

Comparing the heat contribution of CO2, with the heat in the entire climate system on any time scale, is like comparing an elephant with an ant.

Observations show chaotic behavior of the climate system on all time scales, including sudden regime transitions, as we documented in Rial, J., R.A. Pielke Sr., M. Beniston, M. Claussen, J. Canadell, P. Cox, H. Held, N. de Noblet - Ducoudre, R. Prinn, J. Reynolds, and J.D. Salas, 2004: Nonlinearities, feedbacks and critical thresholds within the Earth's climate system.

I think some further explanation of the statement, «Observations show chaotic behavior of the climate system on all time scales, including sudden regime transitions» is warranted.

The strongest internal variability in the climate system on this time scale is the change from El Niño to La Niña — a natural, stochastic «seesaw» in the tropical Pacific called ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation).

It is also a classic demonstration of the need for ensemble prediction systems on all time scales in order to sample the range of possible outcomes that even the real world could produce.

Further, following your google hint, a few models popped up, e.g. this one that says in abstract: «A box model of the ocean - atmosphere - sea ice - land ice climate system is used to study a novel mechanism for self - sustained oscillations of the climate system on a time scale of 100,000 years, without external forcing.»

Not exact matches

«But on galactic time scales, when you're creating stars and solar systems, that's not that much time.»

My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time by households and businesses right around the world.

According to the California Independent System Operator (ISO), utility - scale solar generation reached 10,521 MW on Thursday April 26, as the first time it had surpassed 10.5 GW.

Within the functional world - village, to which technology has now shrunk mankind's space - time dimensions, information on a world or inter-continental scale is distorted, mutilated and ignored to a much greater degree than information within the nation - state systems.

Calley Eads, a fifth - year doctoral student in the UA's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, aligns a laser system used to track electrons on time - scales at the limits of what can be measured.

Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.

Strictly seen, this applies, nevertheless, for most systems only on very long time scales.

Using the naturally occurring uranium - lead isotope decay system, which is used for age determinations on geological time - scales, the authors deduced that these events took place at least 3.02 billion years ago.

«This shows that there are internal responses within the climate system that can make glaciers grow and shrink on very short time scales.

«What is new in our system is, for the first time on the atomic scale, we can see this transition from friction to superlubricity.»

Varadan and researchers in his laboratory have tested the system on a small scale for real - time application.

«The influence of rising oceans is even greater than the overall amount of sea level rise because of storm surge, erosion and inundation,» said Carlson, who studies the interaction of ice sheets, oceans and the climate system on centennial time scales.

While the methane in the Von Damm vent system they studied was produced through chemical reactions (abiotically), it was produced on geologic time scales deep beneath the seafloor and independent of the venting process.

According to the report, most large - scale data systems that include information on undergraduate students are built to track students in a pipeline model, focusing primarily on full - time or first - time students.

BAAM - CI, a large - scale additive manufacturing platform, allows arbitrary geometric components to be 3 - D printed on a scale 10 times larger than any other commercial system.

Instruments on the glider will provide scientists back on shore with a near - real - time view of fine - scale mixing processes in the upper ocean that play an important role in the movement of carbon, nutrients, and other chemicals through the marine system.

The mission will also focus on characterising the diversity of processes in the Jupiter system which may be required in order to provide a stable environment at Ganymede, Europa and Callisto on geologic time scales.

This lends support to the view that EMICS can be used to gain understanding of processes and interactions within the climate system that evolve on time scales beyond those generally accessible to current AOGCMs.

While your body's performance readiness fluctuates several times a day, the aerobic system improves on the scale of weeks and months.

«This is a new era in early education,» says Lesaux, «and just as everyone is throwing their hat in the ring, we wanted to respond — to promote better, high - quality programming within a system that still needs great improvement at a time when we're focused on scaling.»

With flexibility that the public schools just don't have, new compensation models can be polished and perfected in buildings that work beyond the current system and then adopted and embraced on a larger scale over time.

However, even proponents of innovation recognize that it still may be some time before states can administer technically sound, large - scale assessment systems on demand and in ways aligned with new approaches to learning.

Texas is set to debut a system to hold schools and districts accountable that will for the first time grade them on a scale from A through F. Florida has graded its school districts since 1999.

Both games focus on a nuanced combat system that favors patience and timing, and both have respawning enemies as well as grand scale boss encounters.

This time the war continues but on a much larger scale as it is no longer a war on earth but a war within our solar system.

Massive airships that would never be functional, enormous beasts that register on the Richter Scale when they twitch in their sleep, crazy embarrassingly eccentric sword designs that shoot lasers, what looks like a turn - based combat system that even seems to have a Legend of Dragoon timed button press, and even super moves that require building up.

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.

The retrospective show at Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents for the first time, and on such a large scale, Erwin Wurm's comprehensive oeuvre, which includes all forms of media and systems of reference.

The paper illustrates the importance of remembering that the atmosphere and ocean surface are just a small component of the Earth's climate system — with the ocean depths having a vast capacity to absorb and move heat on time scales ranging from years to centuries and longer.

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

The average temperature, and all other details of the climate system, will vary substantially depending on the time scale used.

The fact that this is possible indicates that we have achieved a fundamental understanding of the system, at least on annual to decadal time scales.

And in any case, this does not erase the shockingly unjustifiable pair of statements you wrote: I'm not worried about the resilience of Arctic ecosystems and not worried about the system tipping into an irreversibly slushy state on time scales relevant to today's policy debates.

But to the point: yes, in theory the climate system could show chaos on longer time scales.

(1) The «fast response» component of the climate system, consisting of the atmosphere coupled to a mixed layer upper ocean, has very little natural variability on the decadal and longer time scale.

But even as I push for an energy quest that limits climate risk, I'm not worried about the resilience of Arctic ecosystems and not worried about the system tipping into an irreversibly slushy state on time scales relevant to today's policy debates.

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.

For obvious reasons, we are interested in how the climate system will respond to an increase in CO2 and that depends on time - scale and what feedbacks we consider:

We model systems on the scale of centimeters using control volumes on the order of fractions of millimeters and time steps on the order of fractions of a second.

And, since the system function (H) is likely to be dependent on time scales, thinking in the frequency domain seems a good idea (especially in modeling studies where F can be speficied in known forms), though we must also anticipate complication due to essential nonlinearity of the system.

That applies (nearly) for the atmosphere as a whole, which is in equilibrium on time scales of around a month, but it doesn't apply to a local precipitation system like a hurricane or even a thunderstorm.

Now, your claim about stationarity of the «climate» in the Lorenz system is not without a merit but hinges on the selection of the time scale.