What causes change in air temperature?

Does air temperature and ocean water temperature change as a result of the same thing?

• eg, currents change water temperature, do currents affect air temp as well? Just an example. . Thanks..

• Answer:

  Of course, it does. The sea can store a lot of energy in form of heat. That is why the air is very different from e.g. the Labrador current or the Gulfstream, at the same latitude. But that is only near the sea surface and as you go up in the troposphere, it will even out. This is why places with cold currents like the Great Banks or the Cape of Finisterre, in Spain, are places of frequent fog. The air at the surface is colder than above and it creates what is called an inversion; warm air above cold one. Air then doesn't rise anymore and the moisture condenses at sea level in form of fog. The opposite is also valid. When the warm gulfstream enters the Norwegian Sea, meeting the cold polar air masses, it can create powerful convections called polar lows and generate nasty weather along the western Norwegian coast.