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- adjective Measured or evaluated on a yearly basis or from one year to the next.
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- adjective Occurring between years, or from one year to the next
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Examples
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… Summary: The Southern Oscillation and increasing GHGs continue to be, respectively, the dominant factors affecting interannual and decadal temperature change.
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His statement about the lack of an adequate observational network to diagnose the climate's response to interannual variability was decontextualized and thus trumped up as has been done in the past to make it appear it's an admission that global warming has ceased.
Bill Chameides: Wall Street Journal's Portrait of the Young Climate Scientist Bill Chameides 2012
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An analysis of the variation of large-scale drought with SSTs revealed connections at interannual and possibly decadal time scales.
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His statement about the lack of an adequate observational network to diagnose the climate's response to interannual variability was decontextualized and thus trumped up as has been done in the past to make it appear it's an admission that global warming has ceased.
Bill Chameides: Wall Street Journal's Portrait of the Young Climate Scientist Bill Chameides 2012
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Associated Press This image provided by NASA shows QuikScat interannual observations of sea ice over the Arctic.
What's the Next 'Global Warming'? Bret Stephens 2010
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Her work in climatology focuses ontopicsconcerning climaticvariability and change across North America at interannual to decadal timescales, hydrology and hydroclimatologyof the Midwest, and the connection between Arctic sea ice changeand climates of the mid-latitudes.
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First, people living in the Arctic, particularly indigenous peoples with subsistence livelihoods, have historically experienced a high degree of climate variability, and their ability to adapt to varying climate, from seasonal to interannual, is part of their culture.
Candidate vulnerability case studies for climate change in the Arctic 2010
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Mr. Lynas explains that the chaotic nature of the planetary atmosphere expresses a great deal of interannual variability.
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Associated Press This image provided by NASA shows QuikScat interannual observations of sea ice over the Arctic.
What's the Next 'Global Warming'? Bret Stephens 2010
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Associated Press This image provided by NASA shows QuikScat interannual observations of sea ice over the Arctic.
What's the Next 'Global Warming'? Bret Stephens 2010
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