interdecadal
interdecadal adjective: between decades; occurring over more than one decade.
Adjective
interdecadal (not comparable)
- Between decades; occurring over more than one decade.
- 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
- 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
Forms of interdecadal
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Origin of interdecadal
From inter- + decadal.
Words formed from interdecadal
- interdecadal Pacific oscillation
Questions about interdecadal
- What does interdecadal mean?
- Interdecadal means between decades; occurring over more than one decade.
- What part of speech is interdecadal?
- Interdecadal is an adjective.
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