Question

why land is heated and cooled faster than the sea

Answer 1

Land surfaces absorb much more solar radiation than water. This is due to the fact that most land surfaces are darker than water which of course means more absorption of solar radiation and heat. Water reflects most solar radiation that reaches its surface back to the atmosphere. Since land absorbs more solar radiation the land surface retains more heat as do the vegetation for energy. Thus, land surfaces warm more quickly than water.

Answer 2

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The answer is" It’s because of heat capacity. Heat capacity is ameasure of the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one mole of a pure substance by one degree Kelvin, but intuitively it means how much heat energy you have to “pay up” in order to increase the temperature(or hotness) of a particular substance.

Water is great at “storing heat”, because it takes a lot of heat energy to actually heat it as compared to say metal and sand.

The opposite applies the same way too. Water cools down slower than land even if they release energy at the same rate.

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