Stadial or stade (Q1048)
Subject, term, tag: Stadial or stade
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Stadial or stade |
Subject, term, tag: Stadial or stade |
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IPCC Glossary v1.5
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27 May 2026
A brief period of regional climatic cooling during a glacial or interglacial interval, often characterized by transient glacial advances. Stadials are generally of short duration (hundreds to a few thousand years) compared to glacial or interglacial intervals (lasting many thousands to tens of thousands of years). One example of a regional stadial event is based on millennial scale cooling recorded by oxygen isotope ratios in Greenland ice cores, the so called “Greenland Stadials” (Johnsen et al., 1992). (English)
IPCC Glossary v1.5
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27 May 2026