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When it is winter in higher latitudes regions along the sea experience a mild climate while inland regions experience a very cold climate why?
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∙ 7y ago
There are two reasons:
- The ocean acts as a significant thermal reservoir. Water has an amazingly high heat capacity, i.e it takes a lot more energy to raise and lower the temperature of water than it does most substances - and a lot of energy to freeze/thaw or evaporate/condense. The temperature of the air near the ocean is moderated by this - if the air is cold, the ocean can warm it without being changed very much in temperature
- Ocean currents can carry warmer water from lower latitudes to the higher latitudes. Areas near this warmer coastal water benefit from this by having the air above it absorb some of the energy of the comparatively warmer water to moderate the temperature swings. Inland the land stays put (unless you load it in trucks a and transport it - and even then you would have a hard time moving as much thermal mass as the ocean currents do naturally)
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∙ 7y agoThe sea takes longer to become warmer or colder than the land.
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