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- adverb In a
decadal manner - adverb With respect to
decades
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Examples
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Discrepancies between decadally smoothed simulated and observed global mean LATs after 1970 are due to a lack of explicit anthropogenic forcings in this model Sexton, 2001.
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Plate 2 shows all of the new-low-frequency April-September regional reconstructions, plotted here as decadally smoothed anomalues in black.
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Not shown on the chart but present on the data sheet are Caribbean sea level pressure and SST near Spain, which also seem to cycle decadally.
Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit 2007
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“We use decadal or decadally smoothed proxy records since information about low- frequency variability is crucial to separate natural climate variability from greenhouse warming, and because fewer records are needed to reliably sample decadal and hemispheric temperature variability global decadal mean surface temperature is estimated to have effectively 8′€”16 spatial degrees of freedom, see Jones et al.
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Weather, not climate but possible hints of what negative PDO and perhaps additional factors, mean, decadally – Upper 30s N latitude, 120ish W longitude …. we are experiencing some unusual weather.
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Interestingly, the recent Mann Emanuel et al 2007 paper on hurricanes used “decadally smoothed” SST and “decadally-smoothed” TC count to calculate r, rather than individual years.
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You can straight-edge it and see the slope decadally.
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The correlation of Jones and HadCRUT3 decadally averaged temperature data from 30″-90*N is .99 during the overlap period.
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The b-quote that is bandied about here, sez, decadally, the rate has slowed.
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I understand your concerns that the sample size is limited, but I also tried to explain the pros and cons of using interannual or decadally averaged records.
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