The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean
Following a decision by the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (AOSB) in July 1996 the then chainnan, Geoffrey Holland, wrote a letter of invitation to a meeting to plan a "Symposium on the Freshwater Balance of the Arctic". The meeting was held in Ottawa on Nov
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Series 2. Environment Security - Vol. 70
The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean edited by
Edward Lyn Lewis Emeritus, InstituIe of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, B.C., Canada
Associale Editors:
E. Peter Jones Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Dartmouth, N.S., Canada
Peter Lemke Professor of MeteoroJogy, Instituie of Marine Research,
Kiel, Germany
Terry D. Prowse National Waler Research Institute, Saskatoon, Sk., Canada
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Peter Wadhams Reader in Polar Siudies, Scott Polar Research Instituie, Universily of Cambridge, U.K.
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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean Tallinn, Estonia 27 April-1 May 1998 A C.1. P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-0-7923-6440-5 ISBN 978-94-011-4132-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4132-1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Summary Poem Introduction
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1. Oceanic freshwater fluxes in the climate system
Anders Stigebrandt 2. Global atmospheric circulation patterns and relationships to Arctic freshwater fluxes J.E. Walsh
3. Atmospheric components of the Arctic Ocean freshwater balance and their interannual variability R. G. Barry a
