Question

explain driefly the distribution of temperature of sea water​

Answer 1

Mid-ocean surface temperatures vary with latitude in response to the balance between incoming solar radiation and outgoing longwave radiation. There is an excess of incoming solar radiation at latitudes less than approximately 45° and an excess of radiation loss at latitudes higher than approximately 45°. Superimposed on this radiation balance are seasonal changes in the intensity of solar radiation and the duration of daylight hours due to the tilt of Earth’s axis to the plane of the ecliptic and the rotation of the planet about this axis. The combined effect of these variables is that average ocean surface temperatures are higher at low latitudes than at high latitudes. Because the Sun, with respect to Earth, migrates annually between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, the yearly change in heating of Earth’s surface is small at low latitudes and large at mid- and higher latitudes.