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Intertropical convergence zone variability in the Neotropics during the Common Era. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Neotropics data evince expansion and contraction of the inter-tropical convergence zone due to cooling and warming, respectively.
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Large deglacial shifts of the Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2016 AbstractThe position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is sensitive to changes in the balance of heat between the hemispheres which has fundamental implications for tropical hydrology and atmospheric circulation. Although the ITCZ is thought to experience the largest shifts in position during deglacial stadial events, the magnitude of shifts
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The strength, position, and width changes of the intertropical convergence zone since the Last Glacial Maximum. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Yuan S +8 more
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A climate network perspective on the intertropical convergence zone [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2020 Abstract. The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is an important component of the tropical rain belt. Climate models continue to struggle to adequately represent the ITCZ and differ substantially in its simulated response to climate change. Here we employ complex network approaches, which extract spatiotemporal variability patterns from climate data,
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Cloud components of the Intertropical Convergence Zone [PDF]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2002 This study explores the roles of different synoptic‐scale cloud systems in the making of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) data are used to represent both the mean ITCZ and cloud systems. An OLR threshold of 205 W m−2 is used to distinguish daily mean deep convective clouds from nondeep clouds.
Guojun Gu, Chidong Zhang
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Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon [PDF]
Nature, 2007 The Asian-Australian monsoon is an important component of the Earth's climate system that influences the societal and economic activity of roughly half the world's population. The past strength of the rain-bearing East Asian summer monsoon can be reconstructed with archives such as cave deposits, but the winter monsoon has no such signature in the ...
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Structure of the intertropical convergence zone over the GATE area [PDF]
Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 1978 The meridional structure of wind, temperature, and moisture of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) over the GATE observational area is presented. The structure is obtained by compositing rawinsonde observations with respect to the surface wind confluence line.
M. A. Estoque, M. Douglas
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Energetic Constraints on the Position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone [PDF]
Journal of Climate, 2014 The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) can shift meridionally on seasonal and longer time scales. Previous studies have shown that the latitude of the ITCZ is negatively correlated with cross-equatorial atmospheric energy transport. For example, the ITCZ shifts southward as the Northern Hemisphere cools and the northward cross-equatorial energy ...
Bischoff, Tobias, Schneider, Tapio
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Dynamics of the Atlantic Marine Intertropical Convergence Zone
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2022 AbstractA generalized ω‐equation is used to identify the contributions from different processes that force upward motions in the Atlantic Marine ITCZ (AMI) from a numerical mesoscale simulation of June 2010. This ω‐equation separates the diabatic heating contributions, which lie at the core of the Weak Temperature Gradient (WTG) framework, from the ...
Giordani, Hervé, Peyrillé, Philippe
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Dynamics of disturbances on the Intertropical Convergence Zone [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1970 AbstractThe dynamics of disturbances on a theoretically derived Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) are studied.Radiative cooling over a hemisphere is parameterized by a Newtonian cooling law, relative to a radiative equilibrium temperature which decreases from Equator to Pole.
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