ALBERT

Note: Table of Contents: SESSION 1: EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. - Simulation of the Arctic in Global Climate Models / John E. Walsh. - Model assessment of observed contemporary trends in Arctic Climate / Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Alan Robock, David A. Robinson, Richard L. Armstrong, Ronald J. Stouffer, Thomas L. Delworth, Anthony J. Broccoli, Keith W. Dixon. - Sea ice motion in response to the Arctic Oscillation / Ignatius G. Rigor, John M. Wallace, Roger L. Colony. - Arctic temperature change from long instrumental and paleoclimatic records / P. D. Jones. - Sea ice thinning in the Nansen basin and Greenland Sea / Peter Wadhams. - How anaomalous is the current state of the Arctic? / Ernst Augstein and Rüdiger Gerdes. - Warming of the Arctic in 1920s-1930s and 1980s-1990s / Genrikh V. Alekseev, Victor F. Zakharov, Roger L. Colony, Mark A. Johnson. - Variations in surface air temperature over the Arctic Ocean / Ignatius G. Rigor, Roger L. Colony, John M. Wallace and Seelye Martin. - Seasonal and regional perspectives of Arctic Sea Ice Oscillation: wavelet analysis / Jia Wang and Moto Ikeda. - Observations of ice sheet mass balance and climate change / J. Jay Zwally. - European contributions for Summit Greenland Environment Observatory / Atsumu Ohmura. - Features of seasonal and interannual variability of the water circulation and sea level of the Arctic Ocean / Vladimir K. Pavlov. - SESSION 2: PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS. - Climate surprises: lessons from tropical ice cores / Lonnie G. Thompson. - Temporal and spatial nature of change in the circum-polar Arctic / Roy M. Koerner, Bea T. Alt. - Greenland ice core contributions to PARCA (Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment) with emphasis on reconstructing annual accumulation histories / Ellen Mosley-Thompson and PARCA Collaborators. - Climatic and environmental histories for the last two centuries from Arctic ice cores / Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Roy M. Koerner, David A. Fisher, Okitsugu Watanabe. - A coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM experiment for 6 kyr BP and 21 kyr BP / Akio Kitoh, Shigenori Murakami. - Concentration variations of atmospheric methane over the past 340 kyrs deduced from Dome Fuji ice core / T. Nakazawa, S. Aoki, K. Kawamura and O. Watanabe. - Physical properties of Dome Fuji ice cores and paleoenvironmental reconstruction / T. Hondoh, H. Narita, A. Hori, T. Ikeda-Fukazawa, S. Mae, S. Fujita, H. Fukazawa, T. Fukumura, H. Shoji, T. Kameda, A. Miyamoto, N. Azuma, Y. Wong, K. Kawada, O. Watanabe, H. Motoyama. - Variations in the oceanographic environment during last 120 kyr in the Sea of Okhotsk / Takeshi Nakatsuka & the Okhotsk Sediment Core Analyses Group. - SESSION 3: PROCESSES, INTERACTIONS AND FEEDBACKS. - Sea surface temperatures off the East coast of Japan at the last glacial maximum inferred from oxygen isotope of foraminiferal tests / T. Oba. - Hydrologic response and feedbacks to a warmer climate in Arctic regions / Larry D. Hinzman, Kenji Yoshikawa, Douglas L. Kane. - Variability and trends in the hydro-climatology of the major Eurasian Arctic drainages / Mark C. Serreze, Martyn P. Clark, Andrew J. Etringer, David H. Bromwich. - Factors that determine when the seasonal snowmelt occurs in Northern Alaska / Robert S. Stone. - On the role of Siberia in global change / Kunihiko Kodera. - A study of Arctic oscillation induced by a positive feedback between the polar vortex and baroclinic instability / H. L. Tanaka and Hiroki Tokinaga. - A climatology of small-scale disturbances in the polar stratosphere / Kaoru Sato, Motoyoshi Yoshiki and Masaaki Takahashi. - Impacts of winter warming event on the cryosphere in the polar regions / Hiroyuki Enomoto. - Climatic impact of the Arctic aerosols ased on ASTAR 2000 (Arctic study of Tropospheric Aerosol and Radiation) field campaign / Takashi Yamanouchi and Andreas Herber. - Preliminary observational results of international Okhotsk Sea study / Masaaki Wakatsuchi. - Ice albedo feedback effect on sea ice / ocean coupled system in the Antarctic / Kay I. Ohshima and Sohey Nihashi. - Land surface processes in the tundra region of Eastern Siberia / Tetsuo Ohata, Yuji Kodama and Yoshiyuki Ishii. - Influence of the Aleutian/Icelandic low seesaw upon the seasonality of the variability in the Northern Hemisphere / Hisashi Nakamura and Meiji Honda. - SESSION 4: CLIMATE MODELING. - Arctic climate variability in the 20th century / Andrey Proshutinsky. - A sensitivity study of the Arctic climate on the basis of regional and global climate model simulations / K. Dethloff, A. Rinke, T. Kandlbinder, W. Dorn, M. Fortmann, D. Handorf, A. Weisheimer, A. H. Lynch, J. H. Christensen, M. Botzet. - Simulation of climate change in the 20th century / Thomas L. Delworth and Thomas R. Knutson. - GCM Simulations of polar climate variability and change / Vladimir M. Kattsov. - Arctic Alaska climate simulations using the regional atmospheric modeling system / Glen E. Liston, Joseph P. McFadden, Roger A. Pielke, Sr. - Role of North Pacific sea ice in climate variability of the NCAR climate model / Uma S. Bhatt, Srpa Häkkinen, Jack S. Miller. - Intercomparison study of Arctic oscillation (AO) and AO-like climate change simulated by various coupled general circulation models / Akira Noda, Kazuki Yamaguchi. - SESSION 5: CONSEQUENCES AND IMPACTS OF CHANGE. - Impacts of climate change in the Arctic / Gunter Weller. - The changes of permafrost induced by greenhouse warming: a numerical study applying multiple-layer ground model / Kazuki Yamaguchi, Akira Noda, Akio Kitoh. - The Northern Sea route and the perspective / H. Kitagawa. - POSTER SESSION. - Evolution of glaciation on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago during global warmings / M. D. Ananicheva, N. V. Davidovich. - Radar echo characteristics at Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen Island and Arctic storms over the Norwegian Sea / Yoshio Asuma, Nao Ogitani, Makoto Wada. - Projections of the anthropogenic air surface temperature variations onto the modes of internal climate variability / Roman V. Bekryaev. - Under-ice melt pools as an acceleration factor of Arctic sea ice melting / Pyotr V. Bogorodsky. - The coastal erosion as a significant source of the particulate matter into the Arctic shelf / Oleg V. Dudarev, Igor P. Semiletov, Anatoly I. Botsul, Igor V. Utkin, Vladimir V. Anikiev, Georgy M. Kolesov, Dmitry Yu. Sapozhnikov. - Relationships between Arctic circulation anomaly and mid-latitude transient eddy activity during NH Winter / Masamitsu Hayasaki, H. L. Tanaka. - Abrupt changes in meteorological conditions observed at an inland Antarctic Station in association with wintertime blocking / Naohiko Hirasawa, Hisashi Nakamura, Takashi Yamanouchi. - Seasonal dependence and life cycle of the interannual seesaw between the Aleutian and Icelandic lows / Meiji Honda, Hisashi Nakamura, Jinro Ukita. - Atmospheric control over the interannual variability of the Eurasian continent surface conditions / Masatake E. Hori, Tetsuzo Yasunari. - Hydrological simulation of the Lena River basin, Siberia / Xieyao Ma, Yoshihiro Fukushima, Tetsuo Ohata. - Measurements of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes over an Arctic coastal Tundra ecosystem in 2000 growing season / M. Mano, Y. Harazono, A. Miyata, R. C. Zulueta, W. C. Oechel. - Acoustic measure of climate change in the Arctic Ocean / Peter N. Mikhalevsky, Alexander N. Gavrilov. - Variability of water properties along the Barrow Canyon and the shelf-break of the Beaufort Sea observed from the R/V Mirai MR99-K05 and MR00-K06 cruises / Shigeto Nishino, Chikashi Kobayashi, Takashi Kikuchi, Koji Shimada, Takatoshi Takizawa. - Estimate of the predictability of the atmosphere in the Arctic / Daisuke Nohara, H. L. Tanaka. - Does the fresh water supply from the Amur River flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk affect sea ice formation? / Masayo Ogi, Yoshihiro Tachibana, Michael A. Danchenkov, Koji Yamazaki, Kensuke Takeuchi. - On the role of internal ice stress in mo