Western intensification causes:
A) a steeper slope of surface water in the western section of the gyre as compare to the eastern section of the gyre.
B) equatorial countercurrents.
C) the center of the gyre to be shift to the west.
D) very swift western boundary currents.
E) All of the above statements are the result of westward intensification.
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