Influence of Climate Change on the Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic Conditions - Nihoul, Jacques; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
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.
Keywords: Oceanography; Ecology .; Climate change; Ecosystems; Computer simulation; Oceanography; Ecology; Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Ecosystems; Simulation and Modeling