interdecadal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Thus the analysis of longer, high-resolution ice cores from the Canadian north could be quite revealing from the viewpoint of Arctic interdecadal variability."
- "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."
- "This chapter describes variations in tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific on time scales from interdecadal to intraseasonal."
- "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."
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.
Inflected Forms
inter-decadal (alternative)
Phrases
interdecadal Pacific oscillation