Preface

Acknowledgements

Summary Poem

Introduction

Oceanic freshwater fluxes in the climate system

Anders Stigebrandt

Global atmospheric circulation patterns and relationships to Arctic freshwater fluxes

J.E. Walsh

Atmospheric components of the arctic Ocean freshwater balance and their interannual variability

R.G. Barry

M.C. Serreze

Hydroclimatology of the Arctic drainage basin

L.C. Bowling

D.P. Lettenmaier

B.V. Matheussen

The Arctic Ocean's freshwater budget: sources, storage and export

Eddy C. Carmack

The Arctic ocean freshwater budget of a climate General Circulation Model

Howard Vattle

Douglas Cresswell

Atomospheric components of the Arctic Ocean hydrologic budget assessed from Rawinsonde data

M.C. Serreze

R.G. Barry

Reanalyses depictions of the Arctic atmospheric moisture budget

D.H. Bromwich

R.I. Cullather

M.C. Serreze

Moisture transport to Arctic drainage basins relating to significant precipitation events and cyclogenesis

John R. Gyakum

Atmospheric climate models: simulation of the Arctic Ocean fresh water budget components

V.M. Kattsov

J.E. Walsh

A. Rinke

K. Dethloff

Discharge observation networks in Arctic regions: computation of the river runoff into the Arctic Ocean, its seasonality and variability

W.E. Crabs

F. Portmann

T. de Couet

Arctic river flow: a review of contributing areas

T.D. Prowse

P.O. Flegg

The dynamics of river water inflow to the Arctic Ocean

I.A. Shiklomanov

A.I. Shiklomanov

R.B. Lammers

B.J. Peterson

C.J. Vorosmarty

River input of water, sediment, major ions, nutrients and trace metals from Russian territory to the Arctic Ocean

V.V. Gordeev

The dispersion of Siberian river flows into coastal waters: meteorological, hydrological and hydrochemical aspects

I.P. Semiletov

N.I. Savelieva

G.E. Weller

I.I. Pipko

S.P. Pugach

A. Yu. Gukov

L.N. Vasilevskaya

The variable climate of the Mackenzie River basin: its water cycle and fresh water discharge

R.E. Stewart

Arctic estuaries and ice:L a positive-negative estuarine couple

R.W. Macdonald

Satellite views of the Arctic Ocean freshwater balance

D.A. Rothrock

R. Kwok

D. Groves

Tracer studies of the Arctic freshwater budget

P. Schlosser

B. Ekwurzel

S. Khatiwala

B. Newton

W. Maslowski

S. Pfirman

Exchanges of freshwater through the shallow straits of the North American Arctic

Humfrey Melling

The transformations of Atlantic water in the Arctic Ocean and their significance for the freshwater budget

Bert Rudels

Hans J. Friedrich

Modelling the variability of exchanges between the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic seas

Rudiger Gerdes

Sea ice growth, melt and modeling: a survey

Michael Steele

Gregory M. Flato

Fresh water freezing/melting cycle in the Arctic Ocean

G.V. Alekseev

L.V. Bulatov

V.F. Zakharov

Colour Plates

Subject Index