Przybylak R. Variability of Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation in the Arctic

Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol. 25. Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, 2002, 348 pp. - ISBN: 1-4020-0952-6
It has been known at least since the end of the 19th century that the polar areas play a very important role in the formation of the Earth’s climates. It is also known today that they are the most sensitive regions to climatic change, and are thus perfect case studies for the detection of such changes. The most serious obstacle to the study of climatic and other geographical elements of the polar areas (including the Arctic) has always been the severe climatic conditions which prevail in these regions. Because of these extreme conditions, research into particular elements of the climatic system (including the atmosphere) began here much later than it did in lower latitudes. For instance, the whole area of the Arctic was not sufficiently covered with a network of meteorological stations until the late 1940s (and even then there were large areas of the central Arctic and the Greenland interior for which no data were available).Acknowledgements.
Symbols.A Review of the Literature.
Data and Methods.
Variability in Atmospheric Circulation in the Arctic between 1939 and 1990.
Variability of Air Temperature.
Variability of Atmospheric Precipitation.
Scenarios of Thermal-Precipitation Conditions in a Warmer World.
Conclusions.
Variability of Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation in the Arctic: An Update to 2000.