Coastal ____ occurs where Ekman transport moves surface water away from the coast.

North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) ____ .

Coastal upwelling produces____ sea surface temperatures.

Which feature of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current distinguishes it from other ocean-surface currents?

In a large ocean gyre, the narrower, faster-moving currents are on the ____ boundary.

Surface currents on the western side of the subtropical gyres are ____ than their eastern counterparts.

The surface layer of the ocean, or mixed layer, is approximately ____ meters thick.

Upwelling occurs in which of the following?

During evaporation of seawater, the dissolved salts ____.

The goal of the M-step in the EM approach is to adjust the parameters so that the expected likelihood P(D|C) is maximized. (* D represents the dataset, and C denotes the k probabilistic clusters.)