Compilation of Holocene alkenone SST records along the North Pacific margins (including a new core Oki02 in the Okinawa Trough)

<p>The&nbsp;sediment core Oki02 (26&deg;04&#39; N, 125&deg;12&#39; E, 1,612 m water depth), located in the Okinawa Trough, is used to analyze ~100-year-resolution alkenone-based&nbsp;sea surface temperature&nbsp;(SST)&nbsp;values during the Holocene. Together with previously published Holocene alkenone SST paleorecords on the pathways of a set&nbsp;of boundary currents flowing along the North Pacific margins,&nbsp;e.g.,&nbsp;the Kuroshio Current, California Current, and Alaska Current, and&nbsp;available foraminiferal Globigerinoides ruber Mg/Ca-based SST records over the Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP),&nbsp;we are able to&nbsp;investigate the centennial- to multimillennial scale variations of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre circulation throughout the Holocene.</p>