Ocean Wether by cassidy and anthony

Ocean Weather

It's a little known fact, but the ocean has a huge effect on our weather. You may be wondering how something like the ocean can change our weather. Imagine the ocean as one giant sponge, it absorbs the heat and from the sun in the morning and releases it at night. Without this cycle all life on earth would cease to exist!

There are more well known effects that almost anybody would know about. Such as hurricanes and cyclones. Being one of the most powerful storms in the world it's pretty hard not to hear about they're destruction throughout the globe. Hurricanes start off in tropical waters, caused by about seven thunder clouds in a bunch. As a hurricane starts it mixes up the hot and the cold air, creating a snowball effect. The ocean locks in heat and moisture which is one of the key elements to creating a hurricane . As our world heats up the ocean releases more heat consequently increasing the number of hurricanes we have.

Some very important factors for stabilizing the weather so things like hurricanes and mass extinction don't happen are underwater currents. Without them mixing up all the water the ocean would be boiling on the equator and frozen solid in the poles. El Nino refers to the abnormally warm surface temperature of the ocean that is blown into different places which changes weather throughout the earth. Everything from fruits to us is reliant on these ocean currents, and without them we'd probably all die.

The currents act like a conveyor belt, carrying warm and cold water everywhere. If they were to get mucked than things like hurricanes and cyclones would happen daily, but a lot more stuff would be the domino affect. For instance it's the ocean currents that bring warm water to Indonisia if they didn't come it wouldn't trigger they're yearly rainfall and thus Indonisia would be a complete dessert and many many species would die out.

People are affected by ocean weather all the time, things like Katrina to the price of fruit. Many people forget this, but all you have to do is look around you and you can see the affects anywhere.

Bibliography

*Yahooanswers.com

*Wikianswers.com

*The idiots guide to weather-Mel Goldstain-copywrite 2002