1 The Origins of ACSYS ......................................... 1
Victor Savtchenko
Part I Observations
2 Advances in Arctic Atmospheric Research ..................... 11
James E. Overland and Mark C. Serreze
3 Sea-Ice Observation: Advances and Challenges ................ 27
Humfrey Meiling
4 Observations in the Ocean .................................. 117
Bert Rudels, Leif Anderson, Patrick Eriksson, Eberhard
Fahrbach, Martin Jakobsson, E. Peter Jones, Humfrey
Meiling, Simon Prinsenberg, Ursula Schauer, and Tom Yao
5 Observed Hydrological Cycle ................................ 199
Hermann Mächel, Bruno Rudolf, Thomas Maurer, Stefan
Hagemann, Reinhard Hagenbrock, Lev Kitaev, Eirik J.
Førland, Vjacheslav Rasuvaev, and Ole Einar Tveito
6 Interaction with the Global Climate System ................. 247
T.A. McClimans, G.V. Alekseev, O.M. Johannessen, and
M.W. Miles
Part II Modelling
7 Mesoscale Modelling of the Arctic Atmospheric Boundary
Layer and Its Interaction with Sea Ice ..................... 279
Christof Lüpkes, Timo Vihma, Gerit Birnbaum, Silke
Dierer, Thomas Garbrecht, Vladimir M. Gryanik, Micha
Gryschka, Jörg Hartmann, Günther Heinemann, Lars
Kaleschke, Siegfried Raasch, Hannu Savijärvi, K. Heinke
Schlünzen, and Ulrike Wacker
8 Arctic Regional Climate Models ............................. 325
К. Dethloff, A. Rinke, A. Lynch, W. Dorn, S. Saha, and
D. Handorf
9 Progress in Hydrological Modeling over High Latitudes:
Under Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS) .................. 357
Dennis P. Lettenmaier and Fengge Su
10 Sea-Ice-Ocean Modelling .................................... 381
Rüdiger Gerdes and Peter Lemke
11 Global Climate Models and 20th and 21st Century Arctic
Climate Change ............................................. 405
Cecilia M. Bitz, Jeff K. Ridley, Marika Holland, and
Howard Cattle
12 ACSYS: A Scientific Foundation for the Climate and
Cryosphere (CliC) Project .................................. 437
Konrad Steffen, Daqing Yang, Vladimir Ryabinin, and
Ghassem Asrar
Index ......................................................... 461
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