1 Introduction: Regional Features of Siberia ................... 1
Pavel Ya. Groisman, Garik Gutman, Anatoly Z. Shvidenko,
Kathleen M. Bergen, Alexander A. Baklanov, and Paul W.
Stackhouse Jr.
2 Development of Information-Computational Infrastructure
for Environmental Research in Siberia as a Baseline
Component of the Northern Eurasia Earth Science
Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) Studies ..................... 19
Evgeny P. Gordov, Keith Bryant, Olga N. Bulygina, Ivan
Csiszar, Jonas Eberle, Steffen Fritz, Irina Gerasimov, Roman
Gerlach, Sören Hese, Florian Kraxner, Richard В. Lammers,
Gregory Leptoukh, Tatiana V. Loboda, Ian McCallum, Michael
Obersteiner, Igor G. Okladnikov, Jianfu Pan, Alexander
A. Prusevich, Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev, Peter Romanov,
Hualan Rui, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Christiane С. Schmullius,
Suhung Shen, Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Tamara M. Shulgina,
Anatoly Z. Shvidenko, and Alexander G. Titov
3 Climate Changes in Siberia .................................. 57
Pavel Ya. Groisman, Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk, Alexander V.
Chernokulsky, Maksim M. Arzhanov, Luca Beleih Marchesini,
Esfir G. Bogdanova, Irena I. Borzenkova, Olga N. Bulygina,
Andrey A. Karpenko, Lyudmila V. Karpenko, Richard W. Knight,
Vyacheslav Ch. Khon, Georgiy N. Korovin, Anna
V. Meshcherskaya, Igor I. Mokhov, Elena I. Parfenova,
Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev, Nina A. Speranskaya, Nadezhda
M. Tchebakova, and Natalia N. Vygodskaya
4 Hydrological Changes: Historical Analysis,
Contemporary Status, and Future Projections ................ 111
Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Richard B. Lammers, Dennis P.
Lettenmaier, Yuriy M. Polischuk, Oleg G. Savichev,
Laurence C. Smith, and Alexander V. Chernokulsky
5 Effect of Climate Change on Siberian Infrastructure ........ 155
Nikolay I. Shiklomanov and Dmitriy A. Streletskiy
6 Terrestrial Ecosystems and Their Change .................... 171
Anatoly Z. Shvidenko, Eric Gustafson, A. David McGuire,
Vjacheslav I. Kharuk, Dmitry G. Schepaschenko, Herman H.
Shugart, Nadezhda M. Tchebakova, Natalia N. Vygodskaya,
Alexander A. Onuchin, Daniel J. Hayes, Ian McCallum,
Shamil Maksyutov, Ludmila V. Mukhortova, Amber J. Soja,
Luca Belelli-Marchesini, Julia A. Kurbatova, Alexander
V. Oltchev, Elena I. Parfenova, and Jacquelyn K. Shuman
7 Human Dimensions of Environmental Change in Siberia ........ 251
Kathleen M. Bergen, Stephanie K. Hitztaler, Vyacheslav I.
Kharuk, Olga N. Krankina, Tatiana V. Loboda, Tingting
Zhao, Herman H. Shugart, and Goquing Sun
8 Aspects of Atmospheric Pollution in Siberia ................ 303
Alexander A. Baklanov, Vladimir V Penenko, Alexander G.
Mahura, Anna A. Vinogradova, Nikolai F. Elansky, Elena A.
Tsvetova, Olga Yu. Rigina, Leonid O. Maksimenkov, Roman
B. Nuterman, Fedor A. Pogarskii, and Ashraf Zakey
9 Summary and Outstanding Scientific Challenges for
Research of Environmental Changes in Siberia ............... 347
Garik Gutman, Pavel Ya. Groisman, Evgeny P. Gordov,
Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Nikolay I. Shiklomanov, Anatoly
Z. Shvidenko, Kathleen M. Bergen, and Alexander A.
Baklanov
Index ......................................................... 355
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