How does the ocean regulate the climate?

The ocean is not only the hometown of wind and rain, but also the central air conditioner of the earth. In summer, cool wind blows from the ocean, and in winter, warm wind is sent to the land, which regulates the temperature and humidity of the air all the time. It can adjust the climate, because the ocean is a huge thermal energy warehouse.

The ocean area is vast, and seawater has strong heat absorption capacity, so it has great heat storage capacity. The main heat source on the ocean surface is solar radiation. 565,438+0% of the heat entering the ocean is used for seawater evaporation, 42% for sea surface radiation, 7% for convection and conduction, and seawater is transmitted to the atmosphere. Therefore, most of the solar energy reaching the earth is absorbed and stored by the ocean, and the ocean has become a veritable big warehouse of heat energy on the earth. Compared with the ocean, the land surface has poor ability to absorb solar heat, and it is concentrated in the shallow surface layer, and its storage capacity is also poor. The temperature rises rapidly during the day and cools rapidly at night. In this way, the supply of the earth's heat is mainly regulated by the ocean. The ocean affects the climate change of the earth through the fluctuation of seawater temperature and the circulation of ocean currents, and through the interaction with the atmosphere.