Sentences with phrase «time scales of a decade»

If we ignore a few bumps with time scales of a decade or so, the curve is surprisingly well fit by a pure exponential.

Deep steric changes occur over time scales of decades or longer and aren't expected to explain the discrepancy over the last 5 years (Antonov 2005).

Such clean energy schemes and improved agricultural and forestry practices are likely to be more economic than direct air capture of CO2, but they must be carefully designed to minimize undesirable impacts and the amount of CO2 that can be extracted on the time scale of decades will be limited, thus emphasizing the need to limit the magnitude of the cleanup task.

I just go to the section where they get into discussing Arctic seabed methane in more detail, and the conclusion of that section is actually: «In summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over time scales of decades to centuries.»

Because the biggest problems in this are things that will happen on the time scale of decades or centuries, and we can't say how rapid that's going to be although it looks more and more rapid as we see what's happening around Antarctica.

Both the NAO and the AMOC have a dominant influence on regional variations over Europe on time scales of a decade [1].

Although (1) the effects of a pH change have been demonstrated in the lab, and (2) it's a longer - term change than ozone depletion, which fixes itself on a time scale of decades after freon emission is stopped.

It has to be close to stationary over the time scale of decades.

There is no good solution massively reducing our emissions from fossil fuels on the time scale of a decade.

We don't have any natural storages that allow for large releases on the time scale of decades (excluding such volcanic activity that has not been observed in actual recent history).

The interaction of ocean circulation, which serves as a type of heat pump, and biological effects such as the concentration of carbon dioxide can result in global climate changes on a time scale of decades.

«A one dimensional model of heat conduction is used to show that surface trends are attenuated as a function of depth within conductive media on time scales of decades to centuries, therefore invalidating the above assumption given practical observational constraints.

For however long this persists on the time scale of decades to centuries the next deeper ocean layer will be slowly warmed by the warmed up top layer.

Anthropogenic climate change on time scales of decades is arguably less important in driving vulnerability than increasing population, land use practices and ecosystem degradation.

The petition reads in part: «Studies of a variety of natural processes, including ocean cycles and solar variability, indicate that they can account for variations in the Earth's climate on the time scale of decades and centuries.

The atmosphere adjusts to the ocean on a time scale of weeks, and the ocean to the atmosphere on a time scale of decades.

connection of the sea ice loss to a massive release of methane hydrates into the atmosphere on the time scale of a decade

There's no reason that the sensitivity on time scales of tens of thousands of years (Vostok record) should be the same as the sensitivity on time scales of decades (modern record).

In summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over times scales of decades to centuries.

Because the chemistry of the ocean equilibrates with that of the atmosphere (on time scales of decades to centuries), methane oxidized to CO2 in the water column will eventually increase the atmospheric CO2 burden (Archer and Buffett, 2005).

Over a time scale of decades, however, a possible self - sustaining decomposition of Yedoma could occur before the end of this century (Khvorostyanov et al., 2008a, 2008b, 2008c).

The main fallacy in the climate change debate arises from the assumption that changes in Earth's climate — on a time scale of decades, centuries, tens or even hundreds of centuries — can not be caused by changes in the Sun.

Not exact matches

Those controls reduced the scale of projects from gigawatts to megawatts and development times from decades to years.

With over a decade of operations under its belt, the store has scaled to a considerable size reaching a c. 26 % CAGR for the period 2013 to 2017, grossing c. $ 42M in that time, and generating c. $ 13M in revenue over the past year alone.

Just on the time - scale for historical documents — decades is an incredibly short period of time for * secondary * documents.

What we're now seeing in certain sectors is that entire classes of jobs become obsolete on short time scales (say a decade), making the retraining needed more like going back to school for several years.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo came with a marching band, a Corvette and a message: It's past time to invest in large - scale infrastructure projects after decades of neglect.

Predictions of weather and climate for months, seasons and decades ahead lie between normal weather forecasts and climate projections for the coming century — concerning both what influences the climate on these time - scales, and the methods required to make such predictions.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

On time - scales of a few decades, the current observed rate of warming can be used to constrain the projected response to a given emissions scenario despite uncertainty in climate sensitivity.

Results: Over time scales spanning at least a decade, the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface has varied.

Forecast temperature trends for time scales of a few decades or less are not very sensitive to the model's equilibrium climate sensitivity (reference provided).

1) the atmosphere (which can also be subdivided into northern and southern hemispheres, and even into Hadley Cells) all with fairly short time constants 2) the upper ocean — time constant on the order of years to decades 2a) the biosphere — time scale from 1 year to decades and even centuries and millennia for some processes 3) abyssal ocean (timescale of many decades to ~ a century or more) 5) the geosphere — timescale of millennia to eons.

We're also learning that natural variability is really important when we're looking over time scales of anywhere from the next year or two to even a couple of decades in the future.

One finds on the secular time scale that both of the X - and Y - component temporal, annual - means profiles of the Earth's Orientation mimic exactly the Global Temperature Anomaly (GTA) annual means profile On the decade time scale one finds that the GTA mimics the Geomagnetic Dipole variations and the variations in the Earths Anomalous Rotation Rate [i.e., Excess Length of Day (ELOD) Annual Means].

Terrestrial permafrost emissions of CH4 and CO2 likely can occur on a time scale of a few decades to several centuries if global warming continues [215].

After painting large - scale, acrylic pieces for a couple of decades, the inspiration, time, and effort required to show up to this particular flavor of creative expression has felt increasingly harder to access lately.

In order for revenge to be orchestrated on this scale, it has to be a full - time obsession, employing bottomless resources, a staff of dedicated minions, and a few decades of patience.

At the very high end of the ability scale, the six members of the US team that won the 2015 International Math Olympiad — for the first time in over two decades — collectively enrolled in over 40 AoPS classes.

And in the process, Boser acknowledges one of the fundamental contradictions related to this accrued scientific knowledge of education and human development: At no other time have we known so much about human potential — the plasticity of the brain, the conditions that activate and stimulate human performance, and the ways technology can deliver knowledge and skills - training at a scale and efficiency that was unimaginable even a decade ago.

We've essentially traveled full circle back to the halcyon days of global government price controls / fixing — except this time» round we've achieved it on a far grander scale, in effect compressing decades into mere years.

The silver lining i see here is invaluable experience creating and managing projects of the size and scale o XcX... The evolution of a long long long overdue open world design that finally does nt rely on «potato world» land / space / time compression (the hardware technology has been capable for over a decade...) This experience seems to have paid off in spades with monolithsofts work on the new Zelda being a clear show stopper.

By the end of the decade, further expansion was also in the works — this time on an international scale.

Although Hilma af Klint's (1862 — 1944) works were completed in the first decades of the 20th century, they still manage to appear surprisingly radical, abstract, large - scale and mysterious, with an unusual colour palette for their time.

His interpretation of African identity on a national and global scale bears equally empowering and vulnerable works that at the same time deliver a vivid perspective on sculpture genre in the United States for the last five decades.

The MCA is proud to present a major retrospective of his paintings, featuring fifty works that span three decades of his career, from the artist's earliest mature works — many of which are being shown in North America for the first time — to his recent, monumentally scaled paintings.

The scale of his work has also played a part; the reputation of Abstract Expressionism was tied to that great American value that bigger is better — in terms both of scale of works and gesture, yet until his last decade (with a group of large paintings exhibited here for the first time) Lewis primarily produced easel paintings created with small marks.

Still, the blue field of Notre Dame, the few black lines, and the vertical just short of human scale make me think decades ahead to a painting with a similar title but more than five times as wide.

Comparisons of climatic trends from GCMs and historical station series show that one GCM integration can not give a reliable reproduction of the past climatic change on time scales of several decades (Benestad 2001, 2002, 2003).

The Arctic sea ice is rapidly disappearing with a time scale of years rather than decades, and it is becoming increasingly likely that the with the Greenland ice sheet will also collapse rapidly.