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Influence of Climate Change on the Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic Conditions

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Jacques C. J. Nihoul

    1. University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

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  2. Andrey G. Kostianoy

    1. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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  • The first book to address the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Environmental and Geo-economic conditions including the effects of global warming on ecosystems and populations with a prospective view of the evolution of the Arctic Sub-Arctic System

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The current warming trends in the Arctic may shove the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state not seen for more than one million years. The melting is accelerating, and researchers were unable to identify natural processes that might slow the deicing of the Arctic. Such substantial additional melting of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers and ice sheets would raise the sea level worldwide, flooding the coastal areas where many of the world's population lives. Studies, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Arizona, show that greenhouse gas increases over the next century could warm the Arctic by 3-5°C in summertime. Thus, Arctic summers by 2100 may be as warm as they were nearly 130,000 years ago, when sea levels eventually rose up to 6 m higher than today.

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Overture

    • Jacques C. J. Nihoul, Louis Fortier
    Pages 1-6

  3. Global warming effects on the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Seas

    • Jacques C. J. Nihoul
    Pages 7-12

  4. The case for global warming in the Arctic

    • James E. Overland
    Pages 13-23

  5. A coherency between the North Atlantic temperature nonlinear trend, the eastern Arctic ice extent drift and change in the atmospheric circulation regimes over the northern Eurasia

    • Oleg M. Pokrovsky
    Pages 25-36

  6. Mesoscale atmospheric vortices in the Okhotsk and Bering Seas: results of satellite multisensor study

    • Leonid M. Mitnik
    Pages 37-56

  7. Recent sea ice ecosystem in the Arctic Ocean: a review

    • Igor A. Melnikov
    Pages 57-71

  8. The effects of irradiance and nutrient supply on the productivity of Arctic waters: a perspective on climate change

    • Jean-Éric Tremblay, Jonathan Gagnon
    Pages 73-93

  9. Production of phytoplankton in the Arctic Seas and its response on recent warming

    • Alexander A. Vetrov, Evgeny A. Romankevich
    Pages 95-108

  10. Reconstruction of oceanic circulation using mineralogical and isotopical (Nd/Pb) signatures of deep sea sediments: the case study of the northern North Atlantic and some perspectives for the Arctic

    • Nathalie Fagel
    Pages 109-123

  11. Observing and interpreting the seasonal variability of the oceanographic fluxes passing through Lancaster Sound of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

    • Simon Prinsenberg, Jim Hamilton, Ingrid Peterson, Roger Pettipas
    Pages 125-143

  12. River flux of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) to the Arctic Ocean: what are the consequences of the global changes?

    • Viacheslav V. Gordeev, Marina D. Kravchishina
    Pages 145-160

  13. Mechanisms of the recent sea ice decay in the Arctic Ocean related to the Pacific-to-Atlantic pathway

    • Motoyoshi Ikeda
    Pages 161-169

  14. Frontal Zones in the Norwegian, Greenland, Barents and Bering Seas

    • Andrey G. Kostianoy, Jacques C. J. Nihoul
    Pages 171-190

  15. How do the very small-sized aquatic microbes influence the very large-scale biogeochemical cycles?

    • Louis Legendre, Richard B. Rivkin
    Pages 191-207

  16. Social, economic, legal and political issues of the Russian Arctic

    • Igor S. Zonn
    Pages 209-220

  17. Two US programs during IPY

    • William J. Wiseman Jr., Martin O. Jeffries, Clarence Pautzke, Francis Wiese
    Pages 221-232
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Jacques C. J. Nihoul

  • P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Andrey G. Kostianoy

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