Acknowledgements

The Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas is one in a set of Arctic Climate Atlases developed by the Environmental Working Group's Arctic Climatology Project. The Atlases were developed under the guidance of the U.S. Co-Chairman of the EWG, Dr. D. James Baker, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Russian Co-Chairman, Dr. V. I. Danilov-Danilyan, Chairman of the State Committee for Environmental Protection. RADM Paul Gaffney, ONR, headed the U.S. side of the Arctic Climatology Subgroup and provided important support to the project. The Executive Secretaries of the EWG, Dr. Linda Zall (U.S.) and Mr. Sergei Kurayev (Russia), also helped make the Atlas a reality.

The Arctic Climatology Project is co-chaired by MEDEA member Norbert Untersteiner, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, and by Vladimir Grishchenko, Deputy Director, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (AARI). The development of the Atlas was funded by several U.S. government agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Office of Naval Research.

Special thanks for project management are due to:

Robert Clarke, Senior Consultant to the EWG
Steven King, Naval Research Laboratory
Michael Lents, Science Application International Corporation (SAIC)
Sergey Priamikov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

The technical scope of the Atlas took shape under the guidance of:

Norbert Untersteiner, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Vladimir Radionov, Head, Department of Meteorology, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
Roger Barry, Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Pavel Svyashchennikov, Senior Scientist, Department of Atmosphere and Ocean Interaction, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
Florence Fetterer, Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center

Other contributors include:

Alexander Makshtas, AARI, Roy Jenne, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and John Wallace, University of Washington, who took part in early planning meetings. Steven Warren, University of Washington, and Mark Serreze, National Snow and Ice Data Center, who contributed to planning the Atlas and reviewed much of the material it contains. Thomas Grenfell, University of Washington, who provided the English translation and editing of Russian monographs. Carole Hahn, University of Arizona, who contributed gridded cloud coverage fields. Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, and Daqing Yang, Global Change Research, Tokyo, who contributed precipitation data. Nina Zaitseva, Russian Academy of Sciences, who prepared the Glossary. Irina Solov'yeva and Elena Berezina, AARI, who prepared the preliminary English translations of Russian papers and documentation. Annette Varani, NSIDC, who copy edited the Atlas content. University of Colorado student Mathew Stones who assisted by editing numerous HTML documents, and Pat Hoffman, NSIDC, who provided library assistance. We also thank Roy Jenne and Steven Worley, National Center for Atmospheric Research, for reviewing the Atlas.

The majority of the data sets used in preparation of Atlas products came from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; the National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder, CO; the NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; and the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of these experts on data sources:

Joseph Elms, NOAA National Climatic Data Center
Scott Woodruff, NOAA/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Climate Diagnostics Center
Jon Eischeid, NOAA/CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Joey Comeaux, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ignatius Rigor, University of Washington

The Atlas development team:

the Atlas development team

From left: Mike Meshek, information architecture (NSIDC); Roger Barry, science review (NSIDC); Florence Fetterer, project lead (NSIDC); Derek van Westrum, programmer (NSIDC); Pavel Svyashchennikov, science review, data expert (AARI); Mark Serreze, Science review; precipitation and radiation fields (NSIDC); Robin Welsh, writer (NSIDC); Norbert Untersteiner, instigator (Univ. of Washington); Laura Cheshire, graphics and design (NSIDC); Michael Lents, program management (SAIC); Vladimir Radionov, project lead (AARI). Not pictured are Evgeny Alexandrov, data expert (AARI); and Diana Starr, User Services representative (NSIDC).