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

Overture.- Global warming effects on the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Seas.- The case for global warming in the Arctic.- 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.- Mesoscale atmospheric vortices in the Okhotsk and Bering Seas: results of satellite multisensor study.- Recent sea ice ecosystem in the Arctic Ocean: a review.- The effects of irradiance and nutrient supply on the productivity of Arctic waters: a perspective on climate change.- Production of phytoplankton in the Arctic Seas and its response on recent warming.- 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.- Observing and interpreting the seasonal variability of the oceanographic fluxes passing through Lancaster Sound of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.- River flux of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) to the Arctic Ocean: what are the consequences of the global changes?.- Mechanisms of the recent sea ice decay in the Arctic Ocean related to the Pacific-to-Atlantic pathway.- Frontal Zones in the Norwegian, Greenland, Barents and Bering Seas.- How do the very small-sized aquatic microbes influence the very large-scale biogeochemical cycles?.- Social, economic, legal and political issues of the Russian Arctic.- Two US programs during IPY.