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interdecadal en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English decadal English interdecadal From inter- + decadal.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Between decades; occurring over more than one decade.
   • 2010, Kon-Kee Liu, Chun-Mao Tseng, Tzu-Ying Yeh, Li-Wen Wang, Elevated Phytoplankton Biomass in Marginal Seas in the Low Latitude Ocean: A Case Study in the South China Sea, Wing-Huen Ip, Anil Bhardwaj (editors), Advances in Geosciences, Volume 19: Planetary Science (PS), page 101, Therefore, there is a striking interdecadal variation of ENSO signal in the upper heat content anomalies of the tropical Pacific during the past 120 years from 1881–2000.
   • This chapter describes variations in tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific on time scales from interdecadal to intraseasonal. 2004, Johnny C. L. Chan, “10: Variations in the Activity of Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific: From Interdecadal to Intraseasonal”, in Richard J. Murnane, Kam-biu Liu, editors, Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future, page 269:
   • Latif and Barnett's postulated mechanism is that self-sustained oscillations at interdecadal time scales can be set up through the influence of the subtropical ocean gyre on SST anomalies in the North Pacific and a subsequent delayed response of wind stress that spins down the gyre. 1999, National Research Council, Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses, page 92:
   • Thus the analysis of longer, high-resolution ice cores from the Canadian north could be quite revealing from the viewpoint of Arctic interdecadal variability. 1996, National Research Council, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales, page 259:

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Deriveds

interdecadal Pacific oscillation