Sentences with phrase «water over the timescale»

It seems that those who fear AGW (or at least some of them) do admit that it is not realistic to expect a planetary atmosphere such as ours to warm up oceans of water over the timescale required by AGW theory because of the huge volume and density of that water and thus the heat storage differentials.

Not exact matches

«This raises the possibility that water may re-accumulate after extraction, but we need to better understand the physics of why and how this happens to understand the timescale over which water may be renewed.»

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

«Evidence indicates that Antarctic bottom water production through the Holocene (last 10,000 years) is not in a steady - state condition [3], that is to say that bottom water production sites shift along the Antarctic margin over decade to century timescales as conditions for the existence of polynas change.

The main objectives of this study are to better understand the characteristics of the SR through an in - depth assessment of the contemporary water balance when the basin was intensively monitored (1996 — 2005), to use standardized runoff to select the best timescale to compute the Standard Precipitation (SPI) and Standard Precipitation Evaporation Indices (SPEI) to estimate trends in water availability over 1919 to 2005.

Our study has identified soil water predictability even beyond the interannual timescales, thus extending the potential predictive range of hydrological conditions over North America to almost a decade.

It seemed that the tremendous masses of water could vary only over a geological timescale.

I calculate Delta GT carbon = 6.5 * Delta T + 0.48 * emitted carbon, which I make to convert to 2.8 ppmv per degree C. That's much less than your figure, but given the timescales one would expect much more outgassing over a longer period because a greater quantity of water will warm.

«Based on their results, the researchers conclude that the Arctic Ocean has a previously unrecognized high sensitivity to changes of the freshwater input over multiple timescales, which is manifested in large temperature excursions of the intermediate water layers.»

The pH in surface open - ocean waters was regulated largely by changes in CO2 because the carbonate ion concentration (CO3 −) concentration is relatively uniform over the timescales of interest and ocean waters are mostly saturated in Ca2 + (Caldeira and Berner 1999).

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

Better climate predictions over timescales of weeks to decades will help key sectors such as agriculture, water management, health and energy plan for and adapt to the future.»