ABSTRACT
In order to understand the nature and the characteristics of the ocean environment, one must start from the heat budget of the incoming solar energy and examine how it is balanced by the changes it effects on the earth and its environs and by the amount it gets reflected and re-radiated back into the space from where the energy was received in the beginning. In order to prevent the progressive heating or cooling of the earth, the earth must lose the same amount of heat energy it receives from the outer space; on an average, it must re-radiate back into space as much heat as it receives. The changes of the ocean environment are caused primarily by 47.5 parts of the energy absorbed by the solid and fluid parts of earth. The environmental changes caused by the local heat budget vary with respect to time and space, showing daily/seasonal and spatial variations; more heat is gained than lost at the equatorial regions, and more heat is lost than gained at the higher-latitude regions [1].
