Rapid Climate Changes in the Westernmost Mediterranean (Alboran Sea) Over the Last 35 kyr: New Insights From Four Lipid Paleothermometers (UK' 37, TEXH 86, RI-OH', and LDI)

This study was supported by Grant PID2019-104624RB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033, Grants FEDER/Junta de Andalucia-Consejeria de Economia y Conocimiento P18-RT-3804 and P18-RT- 4074, and Research Group RNM-179 (Junta de Andalucia). The authors also thank the Unidad Cientifica de Excelencia UCE-PP2016-05 (University of Granada). This study also received funding from the Netherlands Earth System Science Center (NESSC) through a gravitation grant (024.002.001) to J. S. Sinninghe Damste and S. Schouten from the Dutch Ministry for Education, Culture and Science. M. Rodrigo-Gamiz acknowledges funding from the Andalucia Talent Hub Program co-funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (COFUND-Grant Agreement No 291780) and the Junta de Andalucia and from the Juan de la Cierva-Incorporacion program in the University of Granada (IJCI-2017-33,755) from Secretaria de Estado de I + D + i, Spain. We thank the captain, crew, and participants of the Gasalb cruise onboard R/V Pelagia for assistance during sampling. We are also grateful to the Poznan Radiocarbon Laboratory (Poland), the Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Stable Isotope Research (Germany), and the Centre for Scientific Instrumentation (CIC, Spain) for analyses. The authors thank Jort Ossebaar, Anchelique Mets, Marianne Baas and Karsten Dekker (all at NIOZ) for laboratory assistance. Thanks to Prof. Giuseppe Siani (Universite Paris-Sud Orsay) and Jose Manuel Mesa Fernandez for their help and comments on the age model. We thank the Associate Editor, Dr. Yige Zhang, two anonymous reviewers, and Dr. Felix J. Elling for their helpful comments that improved the manuscript substantially. Funding for open access charge from Universidad de Granada/CBUA. ; The westernmost Mediterranean is one of the most sensitive areas to global climate change and high sedimentation rates allow recording high frequency variability. We present a high-resolution paleotemperature reconstruction over the last 35 kyr using, for the first time, four ...