Interstadial or interstade (Q730)
Subject, term, tag: Interstadial or interstade
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Interstadial or interstade |
Subject, term, tag: Interstadial or interstade |
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IPCC Glossary v1.5
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27 May 2026
A brief period of regional climatic warming during a glacial or interglacial interval, often characterized by transient glacial retreats. Interstadials 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 interstadial event is based on millennial scale warming recorded by oxygen isotope ratios in Greenland ice cores, the so called “Greenland Interstadials” (Johnsen et al., 1992). (English)
IPCC Glossary v1.5
1 reference
27 May 2026