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

Preface.- Global Warming Effects on the Arctic and Subarctic Seas; J.C.J. Nihoul.- The Case for Global Warming in the Arctic; J.E. Overland.- A Coherency between the North Atlantic Temperature Nonlinear Trend, the Eastern Arctic Ice Extent Drift and Change in the Atmospheric Circulation Regimes of the Northern Eurasia; O.M. Pokrovsky.- Mesoscale Atmospheric Vortices in the Okhotsk and Bering Seas: Results of Satellite Multisensor Study; L.M. Mitnik.- Recent Sea Ice Ecosystem in the Arctic Ocean: a Review; I.A. Melnikov.- The Effects of Irradiance and Nutrient Supply on the Productivity of Arctic Waters: a Perspective on Climate Change; J.-E. Tremblay, J. Gagnon.- Production of Phytoplankton in the Arctic Seas and its Response on Recent Warming; A.A. Vetrov, E. A. Romankevich.- Reconstruction of Oceanic Circulation Using Mineralogical and Isotopical (Nd/Pb) Signatures of Deep Sea Sediments: The Case Study of the Northern Atlantic and Some Perspectives for the Arctic; N. Fagel.- Observing and Interpreting the Seasonal Variability of the Oceanographic Fluxes Passing through Lancaster Sound of the Canadian Arctic Archipelag; S. Prinsenberg et al.- River Flux of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) and Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) to the Arctic Ocean: What are the Consequences of the Global Changes?; V.V. Gordeev, M.D. Kravchishina.- Mechanisms of the Recent Sea Ice Decay in the Arctic Ocean Related to the Pacific-to-Atlantic Pathway; M. Ikeda.- Frontol Zones in the Norwegian, Greenland, Barents and Bering Seas; A.G. Kostianoy, J.C.J. Nihoul.- How do the very small-sized Aquatic Microbes Influence the very large-scale Biogeochemical Cycles?; L. Legendre, R.B. Rivkin.- Social, Economic, Legal and Political Issues of the Russian Arctic; I.S. Zonn.- Two US Programs during IPY; Wm.J. Wiseman et al.-