Two types of ocean currents affect climatic conditions. Deep water and surface currents provide the force to drive winds that that push warm and cold air masses. This is the major driving force creating our weather patterns. Warm equatorial currents drive toward the poles to colder temperatures and bring it back to the warmer equatorial climate. The two currents create our weather patterns because if forces warmer air masses to rise and ride over the denser cold air masses allowing movement of air with different temperatures to interact and create daily weather patterns. Surface currents are mainly influenced by wind, tides, waves and other environmental events. About a hundred meters down in the ocean you would be entering the waters known as deep water. Weather can also affect the waves of the ocean by unequal heating in the ocean. The Water Cycle plays a role by the process of precipitation. Just this slight change causes water movement forcing denser water to sink and warm water to rise generating wave action. In addition, ocean currents are affected by the distribution of the sun rays that provide the energy to move and drive global weather patterns.
Well to tell you the truth i think that the ocean currents after the weather rather than the other way around. Because the tidal waves can change the state of the atmosphere and cause the ability for a weather change to occur. I mean, i could be wrong, but from my understanding thats what makes more sense to me.
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