Which flow pattern change results when a warm ocean stream destabilizes adjacent cold water?

💡 Explanation

Destabilization increases the temperature gradient via baroclinic instability, because strong gradients accelerate airflow aloft; therefore, jet stream winds increase, rather than changes thermohaline flows that require deep ocean density changes.

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