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Question
What are the factors affecting the temperature of the sea water?
Answer in Brief
Solution
- The latitudinal location of the sea, ocean currents, cyclones, rainfall, sea waves, the salinity of the seawater, pollution, convectional movement of seawater and seasons affect the surface temperature of the seawater.
- Radiating sun rays from the surface of the sea and less intense sunrays penetrating only up to a certain depth also decide the temperature of the seawater at a depth.
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