Climatic change is currently enhancing permafrostthawing and the flow of water through the landscape in subarcticand arctic catchments, with major consequences forthe carbon export to aquatic ecosystems. We studied streamwater carbon export in several tundra-dominated catchmentsin northern Sweden. There were clear seasonal differencesin both dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and dissolved inorganiccarbon (DIC) concentrations. The highest DOC concentrationsoccurred during the spring freshet while the highestDIC concentrations were always observed during winterbaseflow conditions for the six catchments considered in thisstudy. Long-term trends for the period 1982 to 2010 for oneof the streams showed that DIC concentrations has increasedby 9% during the 28 yr of measurement while no clear trendwas found for DOC. Similar increasing trends were alsofound for conductivity, Ca and Mg. When trends were discretizedinto individual months, we found a significant linearincrease in DIC concentrations with time for September,November and December. In these subarctic catchments, theannual mass of C exported as DIC was in the same orderof magnitude as DOC; the average proportion of DIC to thetotal dissolved C exported was 61% for the six streams. Furthermore,there was a direct relationship between total runoffand annual dissolved carbon fluxes for these six catchments.These relationships were more prevalent for annual DIC exportsthan annual DOC exports in this region. Our results alsohighlight that both DOC and DIC can be important in highlatitudeecosystems. This is particularly relevant in environmentswhere thawing permafrost and changes to subsurfaceice due to global warming can influence stream water fluxesof C. The large proportion of stream water DIC flux also hasimplications on regional C budgets and needs to be consideredin order to understand climate-induced feedback mechanismsacross the landscape.