Fig. 1From: Millennial-scale variability of East Asian summer monsoon inferred from sea surface salinity in the northern East China Sea (ECS) and its impact on the Japan Sea during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3a Locality map showing site of KR07-12 PC-01 and reference sites. b Site location in the ECS during MIS 3 and the shore area (shaded area) at − 80 m sea level during MIS 3. c SST (Locarnini et al. 2010) and d SSS in July (Antonov et al. 2010) in the ECSBack to article page