“…Gray arrows represent deepwater mass circulation: the Levantine Intermediate Water and the western Mediterranean deep water. (b) Map of the Mediterranean Sea with the position of other marine records cited in the text, wherein either organic or inorganic temperature proxies were carried out from the western to the eastern Mediterranean: ODP 976 and ODP975 [ González‐Donoso et al ., ]; 384B and 436B [ Nieto‐Moreno et al ., ]; KS8230, RL11, and ODP967 [ Emeis et al ., ]; ODP 977 [ Martrat et al ., , ; Huguet et al ., ]; MD95‐2043 [ Cacho et al ., , ; Martrat et al ., , ]; MD99‐2346 [ Melki et al ., ; Boussetta et al ., ]; KET80‐19 and KET80‐03 [ Kallel et al ., ]; BS79‐38 and BS79‐33 [ Cacho et al ., , ]; MD04‐2797 and MD84‐632 [ Essallami et al ., ; Sicre et al , ]; NU04 and GeoB10709‐04 [ Grauel et al ., ]; and GeoB7702‐3 [ Castañeda et al ., ].…”