Ocean currents can carry cold water, which can cool the air and land. (Option B).
What is the effect of ocean current?
Ocean currents, whether warm or cold, act as global heat conveyors. During short-term climate change, cold ocean currents play a significant role by transporting chilly water from polar regions towards the equator.
As these currents move, they absorb heat from the atmosphere, resulting in a cooling effect on the air and land in their vicinity.
Coastal areas, in particular, experience the impact of cold currents through a process known as upwelling, where deeper, colder water rises to replace warmer surface water. So option B is the correct answer.
The complete question is below:
Which describes an effect that ocean currents have on short-term climate change
A. Ocean currents increase the strength of prevailing winds, which can cool the air and land.
B. Ocean currents can carry cold water, which can cool the air and land.
C. Ocean currents increase hurricane activity, which can raise the temperature of the air and land.
D. Ocean currents can carry warm water, which causes hurricane activity and raises the temperature of the air and land.