Explain the role of water in controlling the climate.

Explanation

Water has high specific heat capacity. It gets heated up and cooled down slowly. In coastal regions, the land gets heated up rapidly. While water gets heated up slowly during the day. Similarly, they get cooled down also at different rates. This differen- tial heating followed by cooling of land and water sets up the convection currents, like sea breeze and land breeze. These sea breezes and land breezes help in moderation of temperature of the atmo- sphere in coastal regions. The cliffe.rence between day and night temperatures is less in coastal areas due to this reason. Even the difference between the wmter and summer temperature is less for che same reason.