Stadial
Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis, Annex VII: Glossary, written by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and published by Cambridge University Press in 2023, defines stadial or stade as: ‘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).’
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