What are the effects ocean currents have on climate?

Question

What are the effects ocean currents have on climate?

Answer 1

In the case of the Gulf Stream, everything! It keeps Great Britain form being as cold as Sweden. The Gulf Stream is part of the global ocean currents that are crucial to the Earths climates. If they stop, climate, as we know it, will change drastically and we could be faced with possibly another ice age.

Answer 2

The ocean currents move cold water from the Arctic and Antarctic (polar) regions to the tropical regions and vice versa helping to warm or cool the waters as they flow along influencing things such as weather, humidity, and temperature.

Answer 3

A moderating effect.

Answer 4

ocean currents moderate the climate like a large convection cell. You have the ferrel and hadley cells that are convection cells for the air and then you have currents that are convection cells in the water. Its the combination of the two that you get a jetstream which therefore brings in storms and moves them. Its with ocean currents that storms receive their power and are able to bring water to the continents.