What is the relationship between ocean temperature and air temperature?

Question

Is there a function rule? If not, do you know where I can find data as to what the ocean temperature is?

Answer 1

Sophia, Good question. Here are two web sites that will provide ocean surface temperatures from buoys in addition to a great deal of other information about currents.

http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/links.html

http://www.gomoos.org/buoy/buoy_data.shtml

There is to answer your question no direction function relating ocean temperatures and atmospheric temperatures. The atmosphere of course over the oceans is highly regulated by the ocean surface temperatures, but that is about all we can say at this point.

Answer 2

all i know is that the ocean temperature is almost always if not always warmer than the air temp. especially at night because of the fact that water retains heat for a longer period of time than the air does.

Answer 3

you can't, the wonderful thing about water is that the colder water is less dense than the warmer water, like with ice. water is alway circulating from the bottom of the ocean floor to the top. if it didn't occur that way, then our world would be covered in ice.