Why aren't any of the world's record low temperatures observed over the ocean?
Air over middle continental areas is much lower at the same latitude than air near oceans. Whereas solar energy absorbs only within the top, thin layer of soil, ocean circulations allow for a deeper penetration of radiation with depth in the water column. Evaporation at the water surface removes additional heat. Water also has a higher specific heat than land does. It takes more heat to raise the temperature of a given amount of water by one degree than it does to raise the temperature of the same amount of land by one degree. Water not only heats more slowly than land, it cools more slowly as well, and so the oceans behave as large heat reservoirs. Therefore, mid-ocean surface temperatures change relatively little between seasons compared to larger annual temperature changes over land.
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