quasi-equilibrium

Permafrost that developed on exposed continental shelves during glacial epochs subsequently eroded when sea-level rise submerged the shelves during interglacial warm intervals and regraded the land surface to a quasi-equilibrium seabed profile.

Permafrost in the Arctic 2009

But it seemed to me that new Keynesian macro had accepted that these are disequilibrium processes being studied using quasi-equilibrium tools.

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Tree lines evidence best when the vegetation is in quasi-equilibrium with the climate as in the Early Holocene, if there are rapid changes in climate, treeline elevations will lag because of the time required trees to establish.

Swedish Tree Line « Climate Audit 2007

Tree lines evidence best when the vegetation is in quasi-equilibrium with the climate as in the Early Holocene, if there are rapid changes in climate, treeline elevations will lag because of the time required trees to establish.

Swedish Tree Line « Climate Audit 2007

In the latter case, I would expect eventually a state of quasi-equilibrium for population density.

Evolution as Feedback? - The Panda's Thumb 2007

One is the slow exponential decay of an added pulse of CO2 back down to some kind of quasi-equilibrium.

RMS and Sulphate Emissions « Climate Audit 2007

Assume the ocean-atmosphere system is in quasi-equilibrium and will always revert to equilibrium when it is disturbed.

KTH, Stockholm Conference « Climate Audit 2006

So while I endorse the general principle that extreme pathogenicity tends to be incompatible with extreme contagiousness, that represents a quasi-equilibrium view.

H5N1 influenza virus--does it live up to the hype? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

This paper showed that in such a "quasi-equilibrium," standard cost-benefit analysis would apply: the amount of inflation resulting from any given expenditure would be proportional to the dollar expenditure on it.

George A. Akerlof - Autobiography 2002

Despite higher out-mobility rates for nonmetropolitan areas, inequality in size has created a quasi-equilibrium between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas which shows little signs of making a major shift in favor of either.

The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997