Biomarker indices and concentrations and biomarker-based temperature estimates from Iberian Margin cores MD99-2331, MD95-2040 and MD95-2042

TEX86H-SST estimates are from the following regional paleocalibration: SST = 68.4 × TEX86H + 33.0 (Darfeuil et al., 2016). UK′37-SST estimates are from the following global calibration: SST = 29.876 × UK′37 − 1.334 (Conte et al., 2006). Bayesian calibrations were also used for TEX86-SST and TEX86-subT estimates (BAYSPAR; Tierney & Tingley, 2014, 2015) and for UK′37-SST estimates (BAYSPLINE; Tierney & Tingley, 2018).

Core MD95-2040 UK′37 and summed di-unsaturated and tri-unsaturated C37 alkenone concentration data are from Pailler and Bard (2002). Core MD95-2042 UK′37 and summed di-unsaturated and tri-unsaturated C37 alkenone concentration data covering the 70–45 ka BP period are from Darfeuil et al. (2016). GDGT data for core MD95-2042 samples with TEX86 values below 0.4 are deemed anomalous and are thus excluded from any description and analysis.

MIS, Marine Isotope Stage; DO, Dansgaard–Oeschger event; GS, Greenland stadial; H, Heinrich event; GDGT, glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether; and N/A, not available.