]> 2026-04-17T15:44:34+00:00 Publication.10.1029/2004PA001061 0 en Detailed deglacial and Holocene records of planktonic d18O and Mg/Ca-based sea surface temperature (SST) from the Okinawa Trough suggest that at ~18 to 17 thousand years before present (kyr B.P.), late spring/early summer SSTs were approximately 3°C cooler than today, while surface waters were up to 1 practical salinity unit saltier. These conditions are consistent with a weaker influence of the summer East Asian Monsoon (EAM) than today. The timing of suborbital SST oscillations suggests a close link with abrupt changes in the EAM and North Atlantic climate. A tropical influence, however, may have resulted in subtle decoupling between the North Atlantic and the Okinawa Trough/EAM during the deglaciation. Okinawa Trough surface water trends in the Holocene are consistent with model simulations of an inland shift of intense EAM precipitation during the middle Holocene. Millennial-scale alternations between relatively warm, salty conditions and relatively cold, fresh conditions suggest varying influence of the Kuroshio during the Holocene. 10.1029/2004PA001061 4 Paleoceanography doi.org 2005 Wiley-Blackwell Last deglaciation in the Okinawa Trough: Subtropical northwest Pacific link to Northern Hemisphere and tropical climate journal-article 20 2017-05-16T21:41:36Z 2457890.4038889 Publication.10.1029/2004PA001061 A7.Oppo.2005 0 en A7.Oppo.2005 PublishedIn (L) 102 en core:publishedIn|http://linked.earth/ontology# PublishedIn (L)