Sentences with phrase «towards equilibrium from»

Not exact matches

Aging itself is a system - wide movement towards chemical equilibrium (away from the highly regulated far - from - equilibrium state) and as such is an imbalance from which all living organisms suffer.

(In full thermodynamic equilibrium, all photon - non-photon interactions, including Raman and Compton scattering, would sustain that equilibrium; all such interactions tend to eventually bring a system towards such equilibrium provided that photons (as well as other particles) are not entering or leaving the system from other systems with different conditions.)

Starting with zero atmospheric LW absorption, adding any small amount cools the whole atmopshere towards a skin temperature and warms the surface — tending to produce a troposphere (the forcing at any level will be positive, and thus will be positive at the tropopause; it will increase downward toward the surface if the atmosphere were not already as cold as the skin temperature, thus resulting in atmospheric cooling toward the skin temperature; cooling within the troposphere will be balanced by convective heating from the surface at equilibrium, with that surface + troposphere layer responding to tropopause - level forcing.)

For an optically thick stratosphere, for full equilibrium, the same temperature profile is compressed towards TOA, except where the flux from the troposphere + surface requires some deviation.

The process of such evaporation and then condensation together with those other weather processes is an express route to get heat energy from ocean to surface to atmosphere to space and the bigger the temperature differential between ocean surface, atmosphere and space the faster they must all work to move the atmosphere back towards a temperature equilibrium.

A steady - state is not a state of maximum entropy and work has to be steadily performed to keep it from relaxing towards equilibrium — dissipation.

A steady state is always trying to relax towards a true equilibrium (isothermal) and requires a constant expenditure of energy, dissipation, to keep it from doing so.)

As per my posts above, it is possible for DLR to increase more than evaporation, and so the warming from the DLR beats the cooling from evaporation, leading to a warming whereby the system is moving towards equilibrium by increasing temperature and hence increasing sensible heat flux and emitted longwave radiation.

The recent transient warming (combined with ocean heat uptake and our knowledge of climate forcings) points towards a «moderate» value for the equilibrium sensitivity, and this is consistent with what we know from other analyses.