Publications (reverse chronological order)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I, Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC - Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. (Rigor, I.G. is a Contributing Author).

Sasaki, Y.N. Y. Katagiri, S. Minobe, and I.G. Rigor, Autumn atmospheric preconditioning for interannual variability of wintertime sea-ice in the Okhotsk Sea, J. Oceanography, accepted, 2007.

Richter-Menge, J., J. Overland, A. Proshutinsky, V. Romanovsky, L. Bengtsson, L. Brigham, M. Dyurgerov, J.C. Gascard, S. Gerland, R. Graversen, C. Haas, M. Karcher, P. Kuhry, J. Maslanik, H. Melling, W. Maslowski, J. Morison, D. Perovich, R. Przybylak, V. Rachold, I.G. Rigor, A. Shiklomanov, J. Stroeve, D. Walker, and J. Walsh, State of the Arctic. NOAA OAR Special Report, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA, 2006, 36 pp.

Richter-Menge, J.A., and many other including I.G. Rigor, State of the Arctic. FY 2005 NOAA Annual Report: The State of the Ocean and the Ocean Observing System For Climate, ed. Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA Office of Climate Observation, Silver Spring, MD, 20910. USA, 2006.

Richter-Menge, J.A., D.K. Perovich, B.C. Elder, K. Claffey, I.Rigor, M. Ortmeyer, Ice Mass Balance Buoys: A tool for measuring and attributing changes in the thickness of Arctic sea ice cover, Annals of Glaciology, v. 44, 2006.

Serreze, M.C. and I.G. Rigor, The cryosphere and climate change: perspectives on the Arctic's shrinking sea ice cover., Glacier Science and Environmental Change, ed. P. Knight, Blackwell Publishing, Ltd, Oxford, August 2006.

Eicken, H., R. Gradinger, A. Graves, A. Mahoney, I. Rigor, & H. Melling, Sediment transport by sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas: Increasing importance due to changing ice conditions?, Deep Sea Research, 2005.

Rigor, I.G., J. Richter-Menge, C. Lee, Arctic Sea Ice and Ocean Observations, Arctic Research of the United States, v. 19, 2005.

Rigor, I.G., Interdecadal Variations in Arctic Sea Ice, Ph. D. Dissertation, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, pp. 100, 2005.

Rigor, I.G., and Jackie Richter-Menge, Sea Ice Extent and Thickness. FY 2004 NOAA Annual Report: The State of the Ocean and the Ocean Observing System For Climate, ed. Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA Office of Climate Observation, Silver Spring, MD, 20910. USA, pp. 67-74, 2005.

Rigor, I.G., Arctic Meteorological Stations, Encyclopedia of the Arctic ,Routledge ,New York , 2004.

Rigor, I.G., Laptev Sea ,Encyclopedia of the Arctic ,Routledge ,New York , 2004.

Rigor, I.G., Sea Ice, Encyclopedia of the Arctic ,Routledge ,New York , 2004.

Pfirman, S., W.F. Haxby, R. Colony, and I. Rigor, Variability in Arctic Sea Ice Drift, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 31, doi :10.1029 /2004GL020063, 2004.

Rigor, I.G. and J.M. Wallace, Variations in the Age of Sea Ice and Summer Sea Ice Extent, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 31, doi :10.1029 /2004GL019492, 2004.

Steele, M.A., J. Morison, W. Ermold, I.G. Rigor, M. Ortmeyer, and K. Shimada, The Circulation of Summer Pacific Halocline Water in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., v. 109, c02027 doi:10.1029 /2003JC002009, 2004.

Rigor, I.G., J.M. Wallace, and R.L. Colony, Response of Sea Ice to the Arctic Oscillation, J. Climate, v. 15, no. 18, pp. 2648 - 2668, 2002.

Bacon, S., G. Reverdin, I.G. Rigor , and H. M. Snaith, A Freshwater Jet on the East Greenland Shelf, J. Geophys. Res., v. 107, no. C7, 2002.

Rigor, I.G., R.L. Colony, and S. Martin, Variations in Surface Air Temperature in the Arctic from 1979-1997,J. Climate, v. 13, no. 5, pp. 896 - 914, 2000.

Jones, P.D., M. New, D.E. Parker, S. Martin, and I.G. Rigor, Surface air temperature and its changes over the past 150 years, Rev. Geophys. Vol. 37 , No. 2 , p. 173 - 200, 1999.

Warren, S.G., I.G. Rigor, N. Untersteiner, V. F. Radionov, N. N. Bryazgin, Y. I. Aleksandrov, and R. Colony, Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice, J. Climate, v. 12, no. 6, pp. 1814–1829, 1999.

Landa, E., E. Reimnitz, D. Beals, J. Pochkowski, and I.G. Rigor, Transport of 137Cs and 239,240Pu by Ice Rafted Debris in the Arctic Ocean, Arctic, v. 51, no. 1, pp. 27-39, 1998.

Rigor, I.G., and R. Colony, Sea Ice Production in the Laptev Sea, Sci. Total Environ., vol. 202, pp. 89-110, 1997.

Pfirman, S.L, J.W. Kögeler, and I.G. Rigor, Potential Shortcuts for Transport of Contaminants from the Kara Sea, Sci.Total Environ., vol. 202, pp. 111-122, 1997.

Pfirman, S.L., R. Colony, D. Nürnberg, H. Eicken, and I.G. Rigor, Reconstructing the Origin and Trajectory of Drifting Arctic Sea Ice, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 102 no.6 pp. 12575-12586, 1997.

Pfirman, S.L., R. Colony, D. Nürnberg, H. Eicken, and I.G. Rigor, Correction to “Reconstructing the Origin and Trajectory of Drifting Arctic Sea Ice,” J. Geophys. Res., vol. 102 no.c10, p. 23239, 1997.

Conference Papers and Reports (reverse chronological order)

Rigor, I.G. (invited) ,and J.M. Wallace, Explaining the Recent Decreases in Sea Ice on the Arctic Ocean ,Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Dec. 2004.

Rigor, I.G., J.A. Richter- Menge, and J. Calder, Recent Progress Towards Establishing an Arctic Ocean Observing System - A NOAA Contribution to the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Dec. 2004.

Calder, J., J. Overland, T. Uttal , J.A. Richter- Menge, I.G. Rigor, and K. Crane, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) Arctic Climate Change Studies: A Contribution to IPY, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Dec. 2004.

Hanna, M, I.G. Rigor,M. Ortmeyer, and C. Haas, The International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) – An International Polar Year Every Year, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Dec. 2004.

Richter- Menge J. A., D. K. Perovich , B. C. Elder, I. Rigor, M. Ortmeyer, An autonomous network measuring changes in the thickness of the Arctic sea ice cover, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Dec. 2004.

Ortmeyer, M., and I.G. Rigor, Observed Changes at the Surface of the Arctic Ocean, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Dec. 2004.

Rigor, I.G., J.A. Richter- Menge, and J. Calder, Recent Progress Towards Establishing an Arctic Ocean Observing System, Proc. Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment (ACIA) International Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic, Reykjavik, Nov. 2004.

Rigor, I.G., and J.M. Wallace, Variations in Arctic Sea Ice, Proc. Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment (ACIA) International Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic, Reykjavik, Nov. 2004.

Calder, J., T. Uttal, J. Overland, J. Richter- Menge, Rigor, I.G.,and K. Crane, The NOAA Arctic Climate Change Studies: A U.S. Contribution to Arctic Council Responses to the ACIA, Proc. Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment (ACIA) International Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic, Reykjavik , Nov. 2004.

Rigor, I.G. (invited), and J. M. Wallace, Variations in Arctic Sea Ice, Proc. ARCUS Workshop, Washington, D.C., May 2004 .

Rigor, I.G., J.A. Richter-Menge, and J. Calder, Recent Progress Towards Establishing an Arctic Ocean Observing System, Proc. NOAA Ocean Climate Observing System Review, Silver Spring, MD, Apr. 2004.

Rigor, I.G., and Jamie Morison, Climate Observing System for Arctic Ocean, Proc. Marine Science in Alaska: 2004 Symposium, Anchorage, Jan. 2004 .

Rigor, I.G. (invited), Variations in the Age of Sea Ice and Summer Sea Ice Extent, Proc. Lamont Mini-conference, Central Arctic: Battleground of Natural and Man-Made Climate Forcing, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York, Jan. 2004 .

Rigor, I.G. (invited), and J. M. Wallace, Predicting the Extent of Sea Ice in the Arctic, Eos Trans. AGU, 84 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS11B-06 , Dec. 2003 .

Rigor, I.G., and M. Ortmeyer, The International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP), Proc. Eos Trans. AGU, 84 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract C41C-0987, Dec. 2003 .

Perovich, D.K., J.A. Richter-Menge, I.G. Rigor, C.L. Parkinson, J.W. Weatherly, S.V. Nghiem, A. Proshutinsky, and J. Overland, Assessing, understanding, and conveying the state of the Arctic sea ice cover, Eos Trans. AGU, 84 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract C41C-0990, Dec. 2003 .

Rigor, I.G.,and J.M. Wallace, Observed Variations in Arctic Sea Ice Extent, Proc. ACSYS/CliC Final Meeting , St. Petersburg, Nov. 2003.

Rigor, I.G.,E.T. Hudson, T. Løyning, and S. Priamikov, The International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP), Proc. ACSYS/CliC Final Meeting, St. Petersburg, Nov. 2003.

Rigor, I.G., J. M. Wallace, and R. Colony, Arctic Sea Ice Motion in Response to the Arctic Oscillation, Proc. Second Wadati Conference on Global Change and Polar Climate, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2001.

Colony R., and I.G. Rigor, Annual Cycle of Surface Pressure, Temperature and Ice Motion in the Arctic Basin, Proc. Second Wadati Conference on Global Change and Polar Climate, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2001.

Rigor, I.G., J. M. Wallace, R. Colony, and S. Martin, Variations in Temperature in the Arctic, Proc. Second Wadati Conference on Global Change and Polar Climate, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2001.

Pfirman, S., W. Haxby, H. Eicken, D. Darby, J. Bischof, M.O. Jeffries, I. Rigor, P. Schlosser, R. Mortlock, Sediment-laden Arctic Sea Ice: Variations in Sources and Fate, Proc. AGU 2000 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2000.

Pfirman, S., W. F. Haxby, and I. Rigor, Annual to Millennial Variations in the Origin and Fate of Sediment-Laden Sea Ice, The Second CAPE Synthesis Workshop, Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Iceland, Jun. 2000.

Rigor, I.,Variations in surface air temperature over the Arctic Ocean from 1979 - 1997, Proc. AGU 1998 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA , Dec. 1998.

Morison, J. H., D. W. Thompson, I. Rigor, M. G. McPhee, Recent Developments in the Study of the Arctic Change, Proc. AGU 1998 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1998.

Pfirman, S. L., H. Eicken, R. Colony, I. Rigor, P. Schlosser, R. Mortlock, D. Bauch, R. Fairbanks, Drifting Sea Ice as an Environmental Archive, Proc. AGU 1998 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1998.

Warren, S.G., I. Rigor, N. Untersteiner, V. F. Radionov, N. N. Briazgin, Y. I. Aleksandrov, and R. Colony, Snow Cover on Arctic Sea Ice, Proc. IAMAS Symposium IP16, “Interfacial Processes in Ice-Covered Ocean,” Dallas, Texas, Jan. 1998.

Dethleff D., G. Kohlmann, D. Nürnberg, I. H. Harms, M. Karcher, H. Nies, I. Rigor, Drift of Sediment-Laden Arctic Sea Ice: Preliminary Results From 1997 ARKXIII/2 RV “Polarstern” Cruise and Numerical Model Studies, Proc. AGU 1997 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1997.

Rigor, I., R. Colony, S. Martin, and E. A. Muñoz, Statistics of Surface Air Temperature Observations in the Arctic Basin, Proc. WCRP Conference on Polar Processes and Global Climate Change, Orcas Island, WA, Nov. 1997.

Warren, S.G., I. Rigor, N. Untersteiner, V. F. Radionov, N. N. Briazgin, Y. I. Aleksandrov, and R. Colony, Snow Cover on Arctic Sea Ice, Proc. IAMAS Symposium IP16, “Interfacial Processes in Ice-Covered Ocean,”Melbourne, Australia, July 1997 .

Pfirman, S., D. Gregor,I. Rigor, and R. M. Koerner, Role of Sea Ice in Contaminant Fate, Proc. AMAP International Symposium on Environmental Pollution of the Arctic,Tromso, Norway, June 1997.

Rigor, I., and R. Colony, Sea Ice Production and Transport of Pollutants from the Russian Marginal Seas, Proc. American Geophysical Union 1996 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1996.

Reimnitz, E., D.A. Meese, A. J. Gow, S.L. Pfirman, and I. Rigor, Ice-Borne Sediments From the Russian Shelves, Proc. American Geophysical Union 1996 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1996.

Landa, E., E. Reimnitz, D. Beals, J. Pochkowski, W. Winn, and I. Rigor, Transport of Cs-137 and Pu-239, 240 with Ice Rafted Debris in the Arctic Ocean, Proc. American Geophysical Union 1996 Fall Meeting ,San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1996 .

Tucker, W.B., D. A. Meese, E. Reimnitz, R. Colony, and I. Rigor, Incorporation and Transport of Contaminated Sediment by Sea Ice: A Case Study, Proc. of the Arctic Nuclear Waste Assessment Program Workshop, Woods Hole, MA, May 1996.

Rigor, I., R. Colony, and J. Morison, Sea Ice Motion in the Marginal Siberian Seas, Arctic Nuclear Waste Assessment Program Workshop, Snowbird, UT, May 1996.

Rigor, I., and R. Colony, Sea Ice Transport of Pollutants in the Laptev Sea, Proc. International Conference on Radioactivity in the Arctic, Oslo, Norway, Aug. 1995.

Rigor, I., Russian Historical Ice Charts and Data Set, 1967 - 1990, Proceedings of the ONR/NRL Workshop on Modeling the Dispersion of Nuclear Contaminants in the Arctic Seas, Monterey, CA, Oct. 1994.

Rigor, I., and R. Colony, Covariance Between Surface Wind and Geostrophic Wind Over Arctic Ocean, Proc. Third Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, Portland, OR, Sep. 1992.

Rigor, I., and R. Colony, Pack Ice Motion and Surface Pressure Fields in the Arctic Basin, Proc. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1991.

Rigor, I. and R. Colony, Monthly averaged surface temperature fields for the arctic basin, Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 1990.

Technical Memorandums (reverse chronological order)

Ortmeyer, M., and I. Rigor, International Arctic Buoy Program 2003 Data Report, APL-UW TM 2- 04, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 2004.

Rigor, I., and M. Ortmeyer, International Arctic Buoy Program 2002 Data Report, APL-UW TM 5- 03, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 2003.

Rigor, I., and M. Ortmeyer, International Arctic Buoy Program 2001 Data Report, APL-UW TM 6- 02, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 2002.

Rigor, I., and M. Ortmeyer, International Arctic Buoy Program 2000 Data Report, APL-UW TM 4- 01, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 2001.

Rigor, I., and M. Ortmeyer, International Arctic Buoy Program 1999 Data Report, APL-UW TM 6- 00, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 2000.

Rigor, I., and M. Ortmeyer, International Arctic Buoy Program 1998 Data Report, APL-UW TM 3- 00, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 2000.

Rigor, I., and M. Ortmeyer, International Arctic Buoy Program 1997 Data Report, APL-UW TM 5- 99, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1999.

Rigor, I., and M. Ortmeyer, Observations of Sea Level Pressure, Surface Air Temperature and Ice Motion from the International Arctic Buoy Programme, APL-UW TM 2-99 , Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1999.

Rigor, I., and A. Heiberg, International Arctic Buoy Program 1996 Data Report, APL-UW TM 5-97, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1997.

Rigor, I., and A. Heiberg, International Arctic Buoy Program Data Report 1995 Data Report, APL- UW TM 4-97, 1997.

Rigor, I., and A. Heiberg, International Arctic Buoy Program Data Report 1994 Data Report, APL- UW TM 6-95, 1995.

Colony, R., and I. Rigor, International Arctic Buoy Program Data Report 1993 Data Report, APL- UW TM 4-95, 1995.

Colony, R., and I. Rigor, International Arctic Buoy Program Data Report 1992 Data Report, APL- UW TM 29-93, 1993.

Colony, R. and I. Rigor, International Arctic Buoy Program Data Report 1991 Data Report, APL- UW TM 28-93, 1993.

Colony, R., I Appel, and I. Rigor, Surface Air Temperature in the Arctic Basin, APL-UW TM 1-92, 1992.

Colony, R., and I. Rigor, Surface Air Pressure and Observed Ice Motion in the Arctic Basin, 1953 - 1972, APL-UW TM 14-91, 1991.

Colony, R., and I. Rigor, Arctic Ocean Buoy Program ( Arctic Ocean Buoy Program) 1990 Data Report, APL-UW TM 10-91, 1991.

Colony, R., and I. Rigor, Arctic Ocean Buoy Program 1989 Data Report, APL-UW TM 9-91, 1991.

Colony, R., and I. Rigor, Arctic Ocean Buoy Program 1988 Data Report, APL-UW TM 8-91, 1991.

Colony, R., and I. Rigor, Arctic Ocean Buoy Program 1987 Data Report, APL-UW TM 7-91, 1991.

Colony, R., I. Rigor, and Kay Runciman -Moore, A Collection of Sea Ice Trajectories in the Arctic Ocean, APL-UW TM 4-90, 1990.

Colony, R., and I. Rigor, Arctic Ocean Buoy Program 1986 Data Report, APL-UW TM 6-89, 1989.