Budsky, AlexanderWassenburg, Jasper A.Mertz-Kraus, ReginaSpoetl, ChristophJochum, Klaus PeterGibert Beotas, LluísScholz, Denis2020-11-242020-11-242019-07-290094-8276https://hdl.handle.net/2445/172331The climate of the western Mediterranean was characterized by a strong precipitation gradient during the Holocene driven by atmospheric circulation patterns. The scarcity of terrestrial paleoclimate archives has precluded exploring this hydroclimate pattern during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3. Here we present stable carbon and oxygen isotope records from three flowstones from southeast Iberia, which show that Dansgaard/Oeschger events were associated with more humid conditions. This is in agreement with other records from the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and western Europe, which all responded in a similar way to millennial‐scale climate variability in Greenland. This general increase in precipitation during Dansgaard/Oeschger events cannot be explained by any present‐day or Holocene winter atmospheric circulation pattern. Instead, we suggest that changes in sea surface temperature played a dominant role in determining precipitation amounts in the western Mediterranean.12 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) Budsky, et. al., 2019http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/Clima mediterraniIsòtopsPrecipitacions (Meteorologia)Mediterranean climateIsotopesPrecipitations (Meteorology)info:eu-repo/semantics/article7038662020-11-24info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess