Fig. 2: Sea surface temperature (SST) records in the western Pacific margin.
From: Enhanced North Pacific subtropical gyre circulation during the late Holocene
Reconstructed SST changes for (a) site 7 in the downstream region of the Kuroshio Current (KC)36, (b) stacked SST anomaly (SSTA) at six sites across the Okinawa Trough, (c) stacked SST anomaly (SSTA) at six sites (16–21 in Fig. 1a) in the Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP) and (d) SST gradient between the KC path and WPWP region (difference in their stacked SST anomalies). Blue bars highlight the reduction of the KC strength during the mid-Holocene and Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), and red bars mark its intensification during the past 3000–4000 years and the Little Ice Age (LIA). Shadings (b, c) of proxy records show one standard deviation error (“Methods”).
