Sentences with phrase «very wide range of time scales»

Carbon fixed into plants is then cycled through plant tissues, litter and soil carbon and can be released back into the atmosphere by plant, microbial and animal respiration and other processes (e.g. forest fires) on a very wide range of time scales (seconds to millennia).

Rather we have a genuinely complex system, where the reaction to the impulse spreads to the whole Earth system with a very wide range of time scales.

Not exact matches

(2) A complete numerical simulation of the motions taking place in the outer core would make it necessary to cover a wide range of scales with a very small time step, which is out of reach with current capabilities.