Interdecadal vs Multidecadal - What's the difference?
interdecadal | multidecadal |
Between decades; occurring over more than one decade.
* 1996 , National Research Council, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales ,
* 1999 , National Research Council, Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses ,
* 2004', Johnny C. L. Chan, ''10: Variations in the Activity of Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific: From '''Interdecadal to Intraseasonal'', Richard J. Murnane, Kam-biu Liu (editors), ''Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future ,
* 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),
Involving multiple decades
Lasting or spanning multiple decades
As adjectives the difference between interdecadal and multidecadal
is that interdecadal is between decades; occurring over more than one decade while multidecadal is involving multiple decades.interdecadal
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Alternative forms
* inter-decadalAdjective
(-)page 259,
- Thus the analysis of longer, high-resolution ice cores from the Canadian north could be quite revealing from the viewpoint of Arctic interdecadal variability.
page 92,
- 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.
page 269,
- This chapter describes variations in tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific on time scales from interdecadal to intraseasonal.
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.