]> 2026-04-17T15:44:26+00:00 Publication.10.1029/1998PA900015 0 en Past sea surface temperatures (SST) in the northern and southern areas of the South China Sea have been reconstructed for the past 220 kyr using the UK37 alkenone index. The SST profiles follow the glacial/interglacial pattern exhibiting differences between Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene that are 1°–3°C larger than those observed at the same latitudes in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In Termination I both planktonic foraminiferal δ18O and SST exhibit well-defined Bølling-Allerød and Younger Dryas events with temperature differences between both periods of 0.8° and 0.4°C in north and south, respectively. SSTs record a constant north-south difference of 1°C in the interglacials and nearly 2.5°C in the glacial stages. These differences define two distinct climatic and water circulation patterns that correspond with glacial/interglacial sea level oscillations which opened and closed water exchange with the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean through the present Sunda Shelf. 10.1029/1998PA900015 2 Paleoceanography 224-231 doi.org 1999 Wiley-Blackwell High-resolution UK37temperature reconstructions in the South China Sea over the past 220 kyr journal-article 14 2017-05-23T20:03:37Z 2457897.3358449 Publication.10.1029/1998PA900015 GIK17940-2.Pelejero.1999 0 en GIK17940-2.Pelejero.1999 PublishedIn (L) 102 en core:publishedIn|http://linked.earth/ontology# PublishedIn (L)