FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Sea surface temperature variability and sea-ice extent in the subarctic northwest Pacific during the past 15,000 years BT AF MAX, Lars RIETHDORF, Jan-Rainer TIEDEMANN, Ralf SMIRNOVA, Maria LEMBKE-JENE, Lester FAHL, Kirsten NUERNBERG, Dirk MATUL, Alexander MOLLENHAUER, Gesine AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:3;5:1;6:1;7:2;8:3;9:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, DE-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany. Helmholtz Zentrum Ozeanforsch Kiel, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany. PP Shirshov Inst Oceanol, Moscow, Russia. C2 INST A WEGENER, GERMANY IFM GEOMAR, GERMANY PP SHIRSHOV OCEANOL INST, RUSSIA IF 3.3 TC 114 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00265/37630/36988.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00265/37630/36989.pdf LA English DT Article CR MD 122 / WEPAMA BO Marion Dufresne AB Past changes in North Pacific sea surface temperatures and sea-ice conditions are proposed to play a crucial role in deglacial climate development and ocean circulation but are less well known than from the North Atlantic. Here, we present new alkenone-based sea surface temperature records from the subarctic northwest Pacific and its marginal seas (Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk) for the time interval of the last 15 kyr, indicating millennial-scale sea surface temperature fluctuations similar to short-term deglacial climate oscillations known from Greenland ice core records. Past changes in sea-ice distribution are derived from relative percentage of specific diatom groups and qualitative assessment of the IP25 biomarker related to sea-ice diatoms. The deglacial variability in sea-ice extent matches the sea surface temperature fluctuations. These fluctuations suggest a linkage to deglacial variations in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and a close atmospheric coupling between the North Pacific and North Atlantic. During the Holocene the subarctic North Pacific is marked by complex sea surface temperature trends, which do not support the hypothesis of a Holocene seesaw in temperature development between the North Atlantic and the North Pacific. PY 2012 PD AUG SO Paleoceanography SN 0883-8305 PU Amer Geophysical Union VL 27 IS PA3213 UT 000307739800002 BP 1 EP 20 DI 10.1029/2012PA002292 ID 37630 ER EF