Natural Ocean Disaster

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-The impact of the waves and the physical confrontation with objects that is associated with the passage of the waves.

-To the hydrostatic forces/dynamics, and effects of the water to lift and carry objects.

The most significant damage is often the direct impact of the waves on physical structures. Indirect impacts include flooding and erosion of important structures such as roads and railways.

The flood of estuaries and other coastal areas of low level are exacerbated by the influence of tidal action, the storm, and also by frequent changes of channels.

Really strong hurricanes can create more than 60 waves. Below the oceans currents and waves can be really destructive as well. A really strong hurricane can leave behind currents and destructive waves that have been known to continue for up to a week after the hurricane is gone. These types of currents can reach from up to 300 feet below the surface and are capable of destroying coral reefs, moving underwater ship wrecks, destroying oil pipelines, relocating large volumes of sand from the seabed.

Hurricanes thrive off of warm water. Warm water currents would intensify any hurricane passing over it. Hurricanes Rita and Katrina gained intensity when they passed over The Gulf of Mexico’s “Loop Current”. “The Loop Current is a horseshoe-shaped feature that flows clockwise, transferring warm subtropical waters from the Caribbean Sea through the Yucatan Straits into the Gulf of Mexico.”

The ocean atmosphere influences weather and climate in many ways because the ocean and the atmosphere are tightly connected together. Some of the changes taking place are the sun energy and global warming which can cause changing in various plant species. Many different chemical gases are placed in to the atmosphere that can modify temperature and flow patterns of the atmosphere ocean system. The ocean and atmosphere can generate their own internal weather. The ocean plays an important role because it stores heat. When the earth exterior cools or is heated by the sun the temperature is changed over the land. The temperature changing affects the land much faster than the ocean because the ocean is fluid and because of the movement of water. The land is solid and does not have movement like water so the sun heat penetrates the upper thin crust of the earth. One importance of the ocean's capability to absorb heat more and faster is that when a part of the ocean becomes warmer or cooler, it can take much longer for the ocean to become a normal temperature than the land area. This information that I have researched explains why the maritime climates tend to be less extreme than continental ones, this causes smaller day and -night and also winter-summer differences. The action of wind blowing over the ocean surface creates waves and can cause droplets of water to be thrown up in to the atmosphere and some evaporate and can leave very small grains of salt in the air. These droplets may become condensation of water vapor to form fogs and clouds. The relationship between ocean atmosphere and weather can be very complex to understand however with my research I know that both play a big part in determining our weather patterns.

References

Gulf Warm-Water Eddies Intensify Hurricane Changes (2005) Retrieved from http://oceanmotion.org/html/impact/natural-hazards.htm

oceanservice.noaa.gov. (2012). Retrieved from http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/oceans_weather_climate/welcome.html

What causes hurricanes?. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/what-causes-hurricanes

What Happens Underwater During a Hurricane?, (2012). Retrieved from http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/blog/2012/10/22/what-happens-underwater-during-a-hurricane/