Discussion
Western boundary currents such as the Gulf Stream are
Answer: B
Correct answer: narrow, fast and warm
The Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio are a hundred kilometres wide and move at metres per second, against the thousand-kilometre width and centimetres per second of their eastern counterparts. The intensification arises because the Coriolis parameter varies with latitude, which crowds the return flow of each gyre against the western boundary - and it is why these currents dominate the poleward transport of heat.
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