Introductory		Presentations

Introductory Session

Introductory Session. Why Northern Eurasia and what are climatic hot spots.

Michael Kabanov

Observational evidences of current drastic climatic variations in Siberia

Vasily Lykosov

Modeling of present and future climatic variations in Siberia

Alexander Isaev and S. Bartalev

Russian Academy of Sciences Program on Northern Eurasia terrestrial ecosystem monitoring

Evgueni Gordov, A.M. Fedotov, M.V. Kabanov, V.N. Lykosov, V.A. Snytko, Yu.I. Shokin, E.A. Vaganov, O.F. Vasiliev

Integrated Regional Study of Siberia Environment: SB RAS Step to the Northern Eurasia IRS

Andrey Shmakin

IGBP National Committee approach to IRS on Northern Eurasia