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East Siberian Sea

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East Siberian Sea, Rus. Vostochno-Sibirskoye More, part of the Arctic Ocean N of NE Siberia, Russia, bounded on the W by the New Siberian Islands and on the E by Wrangel Island. The Indigirka, Kolyma, Chaun, and other rivers flow into the sea. The western section of the sea is very shallow. Ambarchik, NE Sakha Republic, is the main port on the sea, which is navigable during the ice-free days of August and September.
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First spotted on satellite images in 1983, the plumes are extremely thin cloud trails stretching hundreds of kilometers downwind of tiny Bennett Island, located in the East Siberian Sea.
Mountains give rise to perplexing plumes by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
Dunton, Schell and co-workers from Alaska, Texas and the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad have now extended the known zooplankton gradient--the range over which its carbon isotope ratio changes--from the eastern Beaufor t Sea down to the Bering Sea and eastward into the Soviet East Siberian Sea.
Food chains: the carbon link; borrowing a technique from ... by Hart, Stephen / Science News
In 1810, a Russian industrialist namedJacob Sannikov stood on the New Siberian Islands in the East Siberian Sea, looked to the north and thought he had discovered a new continent.
Cloud conundrums; satellites have spied strange plumes coming from ... by Weisburd, Stefi / Science News
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