Large freshwater contributions to the Arctic Ocean from a variety of sources combine in what
is, by global standards, a remarkably small ocean basin. Indeed, the Arctic Ocean …

Increased public awareness of the global significance of polar regions and opening of the
Russian Arctic to foreign researchers have led to a pronounced intensification of benthic …

Preface the basins of the Arctic Ocean and to present these data in common or parallel
formats. A coherent picture of sediment and organic carbon inputs from the ocean's margins …

Brief overviews of the Arctic's atmosphere, ice cover, circulation, primary production and
sediment regime are given to provide a conceptual framework for considering panarctic …

Offshore permafrost plays a role in the global climate system, but observations of permafrost
thickness, state, and composition are limited to specific regions. The current global …

Dynamics of the submarine permafrost regime, including distribution, thickness, and
temporal evolution, was modeled for the Laptev and East Siberian Sea shelf zones. This …

This book provides a general survey of Geocryology, which is the study of frozen ground
called permafrost. Frozen ground is the product of cold climates as well as a variety of …

Although knowledge of Arctic seas has increased tremendously in the past decade, benthic
diversity was investigated at regional scales only, and no attempt had been made to …

An attempt is made to synthesize the current understanding of the impact of Russian forests
on the global carbon (C) budget for the period 1961–1998 (37 years), based on a detailed …

Clay mineral and bulk chemical (Si, Al, K, Mg, Sr, La, Ce, Nd) analyses of terrigenous
surface sediments on the Siberian-Arctic shelf indicate that there are five regions with …