224 BIOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF THE U.S.S.R. 



Table 97 



In the western part of the Sea, in the depths of the Novaya Zemlya trough, 

 the salinity is 34-5 to 34-7% and the temperature is —1-6° to —1-75°. For 

 example, the conditions at one of the Persey stations east of Matochkin 

 Shar (September 1927) may be given {Table 98). Throughout the Kara Sea 



Table 98 



at a depth of 10 to 20 m a sharp fall of temperature and an increase in salinity 

 are observed; at depths greater than 50 m salinity does not fall below 34% , 

 while the temperature remains below zero all the year round. The currents 

 skirting Novaya Zemlya from the north have a salinity of 32 to 33% at the 

 surface and a temperature of 0-5° to 1-0°. 



Dilution of the surface layer by the Ob-Yenisey waters can be detected 

 throughout hundreds of kilometres north of the river estuaries, even to the 

 east of Cape Zhelaniye up to 77° N latitude {Tables 97 and 99). 



Table 99 



