How does the ocean influence weather?
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The evaporation from the ocean makes hot air.  Hot air moves creating charges.
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It has EVERYTHING to do with climate, season, winds, etc.\n\nThe Coriolis effect, which results from the Earth’s rotation, plays an important role in large-scale circulation of the atmosphere. As viewed by an observer on Earth, air appears to be deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. This results in areas of low pressure rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern hemisphere, with the opposite being true for areas of high pressure. If the Earth’s rotation were to suddenly reverse itself, these patterns would also be reversed. The westerlies would become easterlies and the northeast trades would blow from the northwest. \n\nChanges in the Earth’s rotation would have an effect on ocean currents, which can influence local climates. The El Niño and La Niña phenomena that affect global climate patterns on a periodic basis. \n\nOne large component of a location’s climate that would not likely be affected would be the effect of seasons, which are more dependent on the tilt of the Earth’s axis than they are on the Earth’s rotation.
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Monsoons are caused by the fact that land heats up and cools down more quickly than water. Thus, in summer, land reaches a higher temperature than the ocean. The hot air over the land tends to rise, creating an area of low pressure. This creates an extremely constant wind blowing toward the land. Associated rainfall is caused by the moist ocean air being diverted upward by mountains, which causes cooling, and in turn, condensation.\n\nIn winter, the land cools off quickly, but the ocean retains heat longer. The hot air over the ocean rises, creating a low pressure area and a breeze from land to ocean. Because the temperature difference between the ocean and land is less than in summer, the winter monsoon wind is not as constant.\n\nMonsoons are similar to sea breezes, but they are much larger in scale, stronger, and are more constant and fast.
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Winds pick up water vapor as they blow across oceans, and drop the water as rain as they blow across islands and  continents, generally losing more water as the elevation rises.  \n\nAs the air and clouds blow over higher ground, the temperature drops and causes the water to precipitate, forming rain.  There is a "rain shadow," on the leeward side of the higher ground in the center of an island or continent, because the clouds drop the rain on the "windward" side of a mountain (side toward the wind), leaving the "leeward" side drier (side that's sheltered from the wind).\n\nThe winds blowing across the ocean pick up water and bring rain to India, bringing more rain as they first come to the land, raining as the elevation rises, and then raining less after they cross the higher ground in the central parts of India. \n\nHope this helps.
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Yes.\n\nNot just hurricanes and cyclones, but extreme weather in general. More heat means more evaporation of the ocean water. More water in the atmosphere means stronger weather.
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Water retains temperature more than air, so the oceans stay warm in winter and cool in summer. They cool air currents that blow around the continents.
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That's a real tough question to answer.\n\nHurricanes don't just result from warm water. If they did we would expect to see more hurricanes in tropical regions than we do. It's fairly complex, but to form hurricanes basically need warm water under a stable, cold, upper level air mass to produce the low pressure bubble. Cyclones and hurricanes only form in a few regions around the world called 'cyclone basins' because only a few regions have those exact conditions. Because the conditions for hurricane formation are so specific it's really hard to predict the effects of climate change.\n\nWarmer oceans should increase the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. Howevere the atmosphere and oceans probably don't warm at the same rate. The atmopshere ATM seems to be warming much faster than the oceans. That might mean that the cold summer air masses needed for hurricane formation will become much rarer, and as a result hurricanes may become far less freqeunt. \n\nAlternatively the cyclone basins may just move. With moderately warmer oceans and a much warmer atmopshere the basins might well move to higher latitudes to where the air is colder. That would be far more catastrophic than a simple increase in frequency. Places that are historically hurricane prone have learned to build to cope with them. If the basins move hurricanes will start stiking places that are not deisgned to withstand them. Can you imagine the effect of a hurricane on New York City or London?\n\nThen we get to throw in other complicating factors like the changes in ocean currents and atmopspheric systems brought about by warming. Weather is the ultimate choatic system, there are a huge number of interscting variables. That makes it just about imposisble to predict 3 months in advance under stable conditions. Trying to predict what will happen 30 years down the track under changing condition is laughable.\n\nAt the moment there is just to much we don't know about how hurricanes form and what the effects of global warming will be. The majority opinion is we'll see more hurricanes and more intense hurricanes, but there is a large minority plumping for movement inthe cyclone basins and a small minoirty predicting decreased frequency.\n_________________\n\n>>>>watch the movie "The day after tomorrow". good movie,\n>>>> and accurate prediction of what could happen if global \n>>>> warming continues.\n\nPMSL. \n\nYeah, and after that watch "Godzilla" for an accurate prediction of what happens following an atomic test.
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The predominant wind patterns are from the Ocean to land. The water is relatively cold off the shores of all California due to the Japan current. The energy to create storms that move inland are not there. Storms brought in from the East are often dissappated by the high mountain ranges along the California shore, in OC, as little as 10 miles away. The tremendous, fast uprise of wet air moving west dumps the water in the mountains and leaves little to effect the California shore. Due to the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, East Coast storms are much more dangerous and prevalent. The Great Planes have storms generated by massive cold 'bubbles' of artic air hitting the moist air from the Gulf or Atlantic...California is not positioned to have these effects...we have Earthquakes and threat of Tsunamis instead.
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Very generally, west coast temperatures are dominated by the prevailing winds from the west, which bring in ocean-temperature air. The ocean has a larger heat capacity than the land, so it tends to stay cooler than the land in summer and warmer than the land in winter. Also, in the summer the Pacific tends to be cooler than the Atlantic, so the east coast has less relief from heat even on days when the wind is blowing from sea to shore.
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It's mainly due to the effects of ocean currents.  Water has a much higher heat capacity than dry air, so it takes longer to heat and cool.  So climates near major bodies of water tend to be more mild in both the summer and the winter than inland climates.
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Water heats and cools more slowly than land (soil).  This means that a pressure difference is created (wind blows from high to low pressure).  Pressure is lower on land during the daytime hours because the ground heats up more quickly than a neighboring body of water.  This creates a sea breeze (pressure is higher over the sea, so wind blows from sea to land).  Breezes are named according to the direction from which they come.  During the evening, land cools more quickly than the neighboring body of water, so pressure on land is higher, and wind blows from land to sea (land breeze.
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"There are basically four elements of weather that can help describe weather. The four elements include  wind, temperature, air pressure and moisture." (From the ref.) These may seem an arbitrary choice until you realize that they are all easily measurable and independent of each other, whereas dew point and cloud cover can be said to derive from humidity, temperature and pressure.
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the ocean is like the wind it has layers of different kinds of salinity of water and tempratures.it has currents going one way and the deeper you go they go an other way some are slow while others can move at highway speeds.it is what keeps the oceans stired up .hot water on the top while you have very cold dense water on the bottom,the heat of the earth is the engine of life
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How scientific do you want it?\n\nBasically, air circulates the earth.\n\nThis air has different temperatures in different places.\n\nThe different temperatures cause different pressures of air masses.\n\nBecause of this air flows around air masses due to the pressure gradient between different masses.\n\nThis air flow drags air of even higher temperature differences into contact.\n\nDifferent air temperatures meet causing one to rise over the other, as this rising air goes up it cools and causes clouds (These areas where air masses join are the fronts on a weather map).\n\nThese clouds then produce rain.\n\nThat rain changes temperatures, more air masses are drawn into contact, and the cycle repeats.
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Prevailing winds off the coast of Africa blow hot air over the relatively cooler ocean. Given that hot air rises, this creates a zone of low pressure that rotates given the Coriolis effect. As the hot air blow over the ocean, it causes a higher rate of evaporation. As more and more moisture is pulled from the ocean, it produces more powerful rainclouds that quickly turn into thunderstorms rotating around this center of low pressure. This is the engine of a hurricane: hot air is sucked in underneath the clouds over the ocean, and pulled by the lower pressure into the eye, which draws the moisture up to the top of the hurricane and condenses.
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It is not a place.  It is an atmospheric phenomenon.  It is a periodic weather pattern that results in more severe weathe patterns than normal.  This usually means heavier winds and rains during the season.\n\nIt is NOT an ocean current, although ocean currents are the reason weather patterns persist.\n\nThe pattern is not exactly repetitive, so it cannot be particulary predicted with any accuracy.  While some try, no one can really say that we are in an "El Nino" westher pattern until we are well in one.
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The coastal areas are temperate and dry.  The Andes prevents moister air from the inland jungles from reaching the coast.  Ocean currents keep weather systems moving northward so away from the coast.