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Preface Helge Drange, Trond Dokken, Tore Furevik, Rudiger Gerdes, and Wolfgang Berger vii The Nordic Seas: An Overview Helge Drange, Trond Dokken, Tore Furevik, Rudiger Gerdes, Wolfgang Berger, Atle Nesje, Kjel lArild Orvik, Oystein Skagseth, Ingunn Skjelvan, and Svein Osterhus 1 Oceanography The Nordic Seas, Main Oceanographic Features Johan Blindheim and Svein Osterhus 11 Sea-Ice Extent and Variability in the Nordic Seas, 1967-2002 BorgeK vingedal 39 Annual Sea Surface Height Variability in the Nordic Seas Kjell Arne Mork and Oystein Skagseth 51 The Mean Sea Level Pressure Gradient Across the Denmark Strait as an Indicator of Conditionsin the North Icelandic Irminger Current Johan Blindheirn and Svend-Aage Maimberg 65 Dense-Water Production and Overflow From an Arctic Coastal Polynya in Storfjorden Ragnheid Skogsethl, Iker Fer, and Peter M
. Haugan 73 Pathways and Export of Greenland Sea Water Tor Eldevik, Fiarnmetta Straneo, Anne Britt Sando, and Tore Furevik 89 Meteorology Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Variability and Its Impacts on the Nordic Seas Ocean Climate--A Review Tore Furevik and J. Even O. Nilsen 105 Wintertime Nordic Seas Cyclone Variability and Its Impact on Oceanic Volume Transports Into the Nordic Seas Asgeir Sorteberg, Nils Gunnar Kvamsto, and Oyvind Byrkjedal 137 Biogeochemistry A Review of the Inorganic Carbon Cycle of the Nordic Seas and Barents Sea IngunnS kjelvan, Are Olsen, Leif G. Anderson, Richard G. J. Bellerby, Eva Falck, Yoshie Kasajima, Caroline Kivimae, Abdirahman Omar, Francisco R ey, K
. Anders Olsson 157 Sea-Ice and Brine Formation in Storfjorden: Implications for the Arctic Wintertime Air-Sea CO2 Flux Abdirahman Omar, Truls Johannessen, Richard J. Bellerby, Are Olsen, Leif G. Anderson, and Caroline Kivimoe 177 Response of the Surface Ocean CO2 System in the Nordic S as and Northern North Atlantic to Climate Change Richard G. J. Bellerby, Are Olsen, Tore Furevik, and Leif G. Anderson 189 Modelling Ocean General Circulation Modelling of the Nordic Seas Helge Drange, Rudiger Gerdes, Yongq Giao, Michael Karcher, Frank Kauker, and Mats Bentsen 199 Simulated History of Convection in the Greenland and Labrador Seas,1 948-2001 Rudiger Gerdes, Jorg Hurka, Michael Karcher, Frank Kauker, and Cornelia Koberle 221 Seasonatlo Decadal Temperature Variations in the Faroe-Shetland in flow Waters Hjalmar HatLun, Anne Britt and, Helge Drange, and Mats Bentsen 239 Convective Chimneys and Plumes in the Northern Greenland S ea Ola M. Johannessen, Kjetil Lygre, and Tor ldevik 251 Northern igh-Latitude Climate Changes During the Holocene as Simulated by Circulation Models G. Lohmann, S.J
. Lorenz, and M. Prange 273 Paleoceanography Holocene Climate Variability in the Northern North Atlantic Region: A Review of Terrestrial and Marine Evidence Atle Nesje, Eystein Jansen, H. John B. Birks, Anne Elisabeth Bjune, Jostein Bakke, Carin Andersson, Svein Olaf Dahl, Dorthe litgaard Kristensen, Stein-Erik Lauritzenoy vind Lie, Bjorg Risebrobakken, and John-inge Svendsen 289 Extent and Variability of the Meridional Atlantic Circulation in the Eastern Nordic Seas During Marine Isotope Stage5 and Its Influence on the Inception of the Last Glacial Bjorg Risebrobakken, Trond Dokken, and Eystein Jansen 323 Exploratory Comparisons of Quantitative Temperature Estimates Over the Last Deglaciation in Norway and the Norwegian Sea Hilary H. Birks, Dorthe litgaard Kristensen, Trond M. Dokken, and Carin Andersson 341