interdecadal

alternative inter-decadal

1. not comparableBetween decades; occurring over more than one decade.

   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

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   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

   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.