"periodic shift" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a patterned and often regular movement from one state to another, and then back again. For example, businesses may experience periodic shifts in their popularity due to changes in tastes or technology.
The update on the periodic shift in ocean conditions was described on Thursday by meteorologists at the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Sophie Scott, professor of cognitive neuroscience, UCL 17 November This year saw the arrival of the long-awaited El Niño, the periodic shift in warm water across the Pacific that brings torrential rain to Central and Latin America and drought to parts of Asia and Africa.
Analysis of this periodic shift reveals the planet's mass and distance from the star.
Main Outcome Measures: Kinematics of head and hip were analyzed by measuring periodic shift of LED markers using an optoelectronic device.
Conclusions: Periodic shift of the support base may be a valid protocol to test the ability to control balance in the elderly, and may be a useful tool to assess age-related changes of the sensorimotor mechanisms underlying dynamic equilibrium.
It is worthwhile to note that the 3x commensurate superstructure parallel to the plane of aragonite can be attributed to stress-induced periodic shift of Ca ions and or CO3 groups analogous to post-aragonite phase transitions in the alkaline-earth carbonates to form 2x2x1 superstructure [[43]].
Periodic shifts in relative pressure between the southern high and the northern low define the NAO.
The interaction between the Atlantic and continental influences causes periodic shifts in climate.
As a result of such periodic shifts, 17 ice ages are thought to have come and gone in two million years.
The American art market, in one of its periodic shifts of gears, is pushing painting hard as a medium; Bonnard also makes sense in this context.
Despite periodic shifts in the composition of the government, the same group of parties, dominated by the Christian Democrats, remained in power in the postwar period.
