Kara Sea 

 Yamal Current^ Uovaya Zemlya Ci.jrrent, Lltke Current, Ob'-Yenlsey outflow 



As shown in Figure 1 there are two separate flow patterns in the 

 Kara Sea, namely a counterclockwise circulation in the southwestern 

 part and a constant river outflow in the northeastern part. There is 

 an inflow of water from the Barents Sea through the two straits between 

 Wovaya Zemlya and the mainland, namely Proliv Karskiye Vorota and 

 Proliv Yugorskiy Shar; there is some inflow from part of the Murman 

 Current rounding the northern extremity of Novaya Zemlya and discharge 

 from mainland rivers, chiefly the Ob' and Yenisey. 



A large mass of water, the volume varying annually or seasonally, 

 is carried into the Kara Sea by part of the Pechora Current setting 

 east through Proliv Karskiye Vorota. The flow usually extends across 

 more than half the width of the strait from the south shore, and the 

 speed of this constant current usually ranges between 0.5 and 1.0 knot; 

 at times the east -northeastward flow may cross the entire strait and 

 increase to 2 knots with southwesterly winds. Direct short-period 

 observations at 70°10'W., 56''20'E. in the west approach to the strait 

 show a constant flow eastward from surface to bottom at a mean speed 

 of O.k knot. Upon leaving the strait, the main part of this current 

 joins the southern part of the Novaya Zemlya Current, and the resultant 

 flow continues northward along the Yamal coast as the slow-moving Yamal 

 Current, with speeds of about 0.2 knot. 



As in the Barents and Laptev Seas, the surface flows are 

 considerably influenced by the strength and direction of the wind. 



