"palpable shift" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a noticeable and distinct change that has taken place. For example, “The new policy caused a palpable shift in public opinion.”.
Since mid-November, however, there has been a palpable shift away from this dull techno-talk.
"Black Flowers," Ms. Skarpetowska's new Chopin piece, provides a palpable shift in mood.
During the week leading up to the opening in particular, there is a palpable shift in the city's energy.
But like the rush to mea a few culpas elsewhere, the strategy is a response to a subtle but palpable shift in the public mood.
As the door to his dressing room is opened, there's a palpable shift in atmosphere outside, where half a dozen trusted deputies are stationed.
They also reflected a palpable shift in the administration's approach to a relationship that has been rife with tension since soon after Mr. Obama took office.
She is "very representative of something that's happened in American music with composers of her generation," Mr. Spano said, "a palpable aesthetic shift from the generation before them that I find very powerful".
Even so, in this August of 2006 a palpable, '68-like shift in sentiment is in the steamy air.
You'll pick it up the moment you sit behind a dedicated force feedback wheel/pedal set-up, but even through a DualShock 3 most cars exude a palpable sense of bodyweight shift resulting from an enhanced suspension model, which when combined with improved levels of tyre behaviour, means you can really play around with the cars in real-world fashion.
The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages.
The right's panic about this shift was palpable.
