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Note: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword. - Conference summary. - EXTENDED ABSTRACTS OF THE INVITED PAPERS. - ACSYS as a journey of discovery / K. Aagaard. - The hydroclimatology of north-flowing high latitude rivers / R. G. Lawford. - Atmospheric components of the hydrological cycle in the Arctic / R. G. Barry, M. C. Serreze and J. E. Walsh. - Hydrological studies in the Arctic zone of Russia / V. V. Ivanov and V. S. Vuglinsky. - On sensitivity of a simulated high-latitude atmosphere to sea-ice fluctuation and to parameterization of cloud optical properties / V. P. Meleshko, V. M. Kattsov and P. V. Sporyshev. - Characteristics of Arctic clouds and radiation (abstract only) / J. A . Curry. - Processes of air-sea interaction in polar regions / A. P. Makshtas, V. F . Timachev and A. S . Zachek. - The ACSYS Arctic Atmosphere Programme (abstract only) / H. Cattle. - Modeling interactions between shortwave radiation, pack ice and the upper ocean / G. A. Maykut. - Remote sensing of Arctic Sea ice / J. Askne. - Sea ice rheologies for use in climate models (abstract only) / W. D. Hibler III and C. F . Ip. - Problems of sea ice modelling for climate research / P. Lemke. - Climatic variability of the Arctic Ocean circulation connected with interannual variations of atmospheric processes / L. A. Timokhov. - Water modification on Arctic continental shelves: seasonal cycle and interannual variation / H. Melling. - Convective water mass and ice formation in Arctic shelf seas (numerical process studies) / J. O. Backhaus, H. Fohrmann, I. H. Harms, J. H. Jungclaus and A. Rubino. - Arctic Ocean water masses and circulation: An overview based on the 1991 expedition of IB ODEN / E . P. Jones. - EXTENDED ABSTRACTS OF THE POSTER PAPERS. - SESSION 1 - HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE. - Characteristics of water and sediment discharge formation from small watersheds of the Arctic zone under the impact of technology / N. N. Bobrovitskaya, N. G. Vasilenko and K. M. Zubkova. - ECMWF and METEO-FRANCE GCM simulations of precipitation and surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet / C. Genthon. - River water inflow to the Arctic seas / V. V. Ivanov. - The initiation of ice sheet growth, Milankovitch solar radiation variations, and the 100 Kyr ice age cycle / T. S . Ledley and S. Chu. - Research results for evaporation from different landscapes in the Arctic zone / S. M. Novikov and S. A. Trofimov. - Interannual variability in precipitation minus evaporation over the Arctic, 1974-91 (abstract only) / M. C. Serreze, R. G. Barry, M. C. Rehder and J. E. Walsh. - Criogenic transformation of the surface- and subsurface inflows into the Arctic seas / B. L. Sokolov and M. L. Markov. - Hydrological cycle modelling for Arctic river basins / Yu. B. Vinogradov and T. A. Vinogradova. - Atmospheric water vapor convergence and river runoff in northern high latitudes / J. E. Walsh, D. Fortis and X. Zhou. - An investigation of the atmospheric effect on snowmelt in the Arctic and subarctic / T. Zhang, K. Stamnes and S.-A. Bowling. - A valuation of possible changes in glacio-hydrological characteristics under global warming: South-Eastern Alaska glaciation / N. V. Davidovich and M. D. Ananicheva. - SESSION 2 - ATMOSPHERE. - Modelling the atmospheric transportation of dust to the Arctic (abstract only) / K. K. Andersen. - Mechanisms of formation and predictability of the intermediate and high latitudes atmospheric blockings / R. V. Bekryaev. - A regional climate model of the Arctic atmosphere / M. Botzet, J. H. Christensen, E. Claudius, K. Dethloff, R. Lehmann, B. Machenhauer and A. Rinke. - Wintertime cold-air outbreaks from the Arctic ice / B. Brümmer. - International Arctic cloudiness-aerosol-radiation project (IACARP) (abstract only) / A. A. Chernikov, I. P. Mazin, I. I. Mokhov and A. I. Voskresensky. - The importance of the low level inversions upon the Arctic weather and climate / K. Wilhelmsen. - On the impact of sub-grid scale sea-ice distribution on atmospheric climate and air-sea fluxes / A. Grotzner, R. Sausen and M. Claussen. - Interaction of the modern climatic changes of atmosphere, ocean and ice cover in the Arctic / Z. M. Gudkovich, V. F. Zakharov, E. O. Aksenov and S. P. Pozdnyshev. - Airborne measurements of turbulent transfer of momentum and heat related to floe field structure in the Fram Strait / J. Hartmann, E. Augstein and C. Kottmeier. - Heat and water budgets over the northern polar region as estimated from 14 atmospheric general circulation models / V. M. Kattsov, T. V. Pavlova and V. A. Govorkova. - On the variability of surface heat fluxes at high latitudes / G. W. K. Moore. - Temperature inversions in Arctic atmosphere / A. P. Nagurny, G. V. Alekseev and E. V. Rozanov. - Physical and optical/radiative properties of Arctic aerosols: potential effects on Arctic climate / R. F. Pueschel and S. A. Kinne. - Calculation of heat fluxes for Arctic regions dependent on sea ice distribution / C. Lüpkes, K. H. Schlünzen, G. Birnbaum and K. Salzen. - Carbon emission from the northern ecosystems and climatic changes (abstract only) / I. P. Semiletov, S. A. Zimov, Yu. V. Voropaev and S. P. Daviodov. - The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Programme North Slope of Alaska/Adjacent Arctic Ocean (NSA/AAO) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART): Science issues / K. Stamnes and B. O. Zak. - Dependence of surface albedo in the Arctic on surface characteristics, clouds and solar elevation / K. Stamnes, Z. Jin and B. O. Zak. - Use of advanced earth observing satellite to study radiation/cloud/climate interactions and ozone chemistry in the Arctic / K. Stamnes, V. V. Filyushkin and B. O. Zak. - Is it tropospheric sudden warming? (abstract only) / H. L. Tanaka and M. Hayasaki. - Methods for estimating the characteristics of the atmospheric boundary layer in polar regions / A. P. Makshtas and V. F. Timachev. - The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Programme North Slope of Alaska and Adjacent Arctic Ocean (NSA/AAO) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART): An overview / B. O. Zak and K. Stamnes. - SESSION 3 - SEA ICE. - Modelling convection in a melt pond / P. V. Bogorodsky. - An operational ice-ocean coupled model of the northern hemisphere / A. Cheng and R. H. Preller. - Patterns of monthly wind and ice motion in the Arctic Basin (abstract only) / R. Colony. - Wind-driven ice motion and surface ocean currents in the Arctic Basin (abstract only) / R. Colony. - Surface melt puddles on multi-year sea ice in the Eurasian Arctic / H. Eicken, R. Gradinger, B. Ivanov, A. Makshtas and R. Pác. - Sensitivity of a large-scale sea-ice-upper-ocean model to uncertainties in the atmospheric forcing / T. Fichefet and M. A. Morales Maqueda. - Parameterizing the strength of Arctic sea ice / G. M. Flato. - Russian historical material on sea ice as a part of global digital sea ice data bank / I. E. Frolov and V. M. Smolyanitsky. - A large-scale simulation of Arctic sea ice, 1986-1992 / M. Harder. - On coupling a dynamic-thermodynamic snow sea-ice model to a global climate model / D. M. Holland and J. M . Oberhuber. - A mesoscale simulation of the Arctic ice pack / M. A. Hopkins. - Seasonal evolution of sea ice cover and shelf water off Labrador simulated in a coupled ice-ocean model / M. Ikeda, T. Yao and Q. Yao. - A study on the relation between the sea-ice extent in the Arctic and runoff into the Arctic Ocean (abstract only) / R. Kanohgi, H. L. Tanaka and T. Yasunari. - Development of seasonal ice cover in the Beaufort Sea: A view from below (abstract only) / H. Melling. - Measurement, analysis and parameterization of melt pond albedo / M. P. Morassutti and E .F. LeDrew. - Characteristics of surface energy partitioning over snow-covered first-year sea ice in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago during the spring transition / T. N. Papakyriakou and E. F. LeDrew. - The interaction of solar radiation with summer sea ice / D. K. Perovich and W. B. Tucker III. - Relating Arctic pack ice stress and strain at the 10km scale / J. A. Richter-Men