• Question: What the temperature of the water in the Atlantic Ocean at day and at night

    Asked by Louis to Philip, Maxime, Jake, Ann, Annette, Amy Heather on 19 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Philip Schuler

      Philip Schuler answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      The Atlantic Ocean is huge! Temperatures differ in time (seasonally) in in space (regionally across the Ocean and of course vertically in depth).

      You have systems, such as the Gulf Stream, which conveys water from the Carribean towards Europe – just an example of a factor that adds to temperature “complexities”.

      I don’t think that day/night temperatures really differ – it’s more for lakes and rivers where day/night changes occur/matter.

    • Photo: Amy Heather Fitzpatrick

      Amy Heather Fitzpatrick answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      So the atlantic is a very big body of water and underneath some of this ocean, you can find volcanos and deep see hot air vents. Of course coming from the south of the Americas is the gulf stream, that warms the Atlantic, as well as the wind system El Nino, that also warms the air above the Atlantic. As the ocean is so big and exposed to both hot and cold systems, there is no one temperature for the ocean. The temperature does drop over night due to stronger winds and lack of sunlight, but close to the coast, you might only expect 2 degree of difference.

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