How does the temperature of an ocean affect the climate experienced by the nearby land surface?

Answer 1

I see that you weren't getting a sense of this from the other answers.

The effect inland along the Great Lakes is known as the "Lake Effect." Otherwise it is known as the Ocean Effect.

Water absorbs sunlight and hangs onto heat energy or thermal energy to a greater degree than a land surface.

Land in contrast tends to absorb heat but reflect more light and energy away and also at night sheds heat more quickly. Land cools more quickly.

In the middle of a continent like Asia (Siberia) or the middle of North America (Great Plains) temperatures tend to be more extreme. The winters are far colder and the summers are much hotter.

Indeed Oklahoma is about the same latitude as Hawaii. In January where would you rather be. If there is a lot of water the temperature shifts from night and day, and from season to season is much less than the land surface.

An island like Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean doesn't have the same delta or change in temperature. Indeed the ambient temperature is about 80ºF all year around and varies no more than +/- 5ºF between night or day. (Unless there is a cyclonic weather event like a typhoon.)

That was the short answer. This is the even shorter one. The presence of a body of water "moderates" the climate of the adjacent land.

Answer 2

The differance between maximum temperature in summer and the minimum temperature in winter is made very less on the land by the presense of ocean nearby as the temperature variation is less over seas or oceans.

Answer 3

2 techniques are: a million.) Land temperature is plagued by skill of wind blowing in from the sea.The wind could have been cooled or warmed by skill of the temperature of the sea water. 2.) Moisture from the sea could be drawn into the ambience, raising humidity ranges.this happens frequently in tornado Alley;Moisture rises into the ambience from The Gulf of Mexico and clashes with cooler air rolling into the Midwest from The Rocky Mountains.

Answer 4

look at a world map.

See that Ireland and England and Scotland are as far north as Labrador and Ontario in Canada.

What is the climate like in Canada compared to Scotland?

Where could this difference come from?

Then look up "Gulf Stream" and you're on your way to answering this question