Question: how does the ocean and atmosphere affect each other during a storm?

John Prytherch answered on 13 Mar 2012:

In many ways! The ocean and the atmosphere are constantly exchanging things like energy, heat and gases like CO2. This can be very complex because the ocean surface isn’t flat, but is covered in waves.

In storms things are more complicated because there are very large waves which are breaking, and it can be hard to even tell where the ocean finishes and the atmosphere begins. It is also hard to measure things in storms because the ships or buoys are being thrown around and covered in seawater (and I’m usually being seasick!).