"interdecadal" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: inter- + decadal Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|inter|decadal}} inter- + decadal Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} interdecadal (not comparable)
  1. Between decades; occurring over more than one decade. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: inter-decadal Derived forms: interdecadal Pacific oscillation
    Sense id: en-interdecadal-en-adj-zugsdFyQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with inter-

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          "ref": "1996, National Research Council, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales, page 259",
          "text": "Thus the analysis of longer, high-resolution ice cores from the Canadian north could be quite revealing from the viewpoint of Arctic interdecadal variability.",
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          "ref": "1999, National Research Council, Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses, page 92",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "This chapter describes variations in tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific on time scales from interdecadal to intraseasonal.",
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          "text": "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,\nTherefore, 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."
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