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Explicit Simulations of the Intertropical Convergence Zone

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2004
Abstract The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is one of the most important components of the global circulation. In order to understand the dynamical processes that regulate its formation, latitudinal preference, and structure, explicit two-dimensional numerical modeling of convection on an equatorial beta plane was conducted with a nonhydrostatic
Changhai Liu, Mitchell W. Moncrieff
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The inner life of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2023
AbstractThe Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a central component of the atmospheric general circulation, but remarkably little is known about the dynamical and thermodynamical structure of the convergence zone itself. This is true even for the structure of the low‐level convergence that gives the ITCZ its name.
Windmiller, Julia M., Stevens, Bjorn, Windmiller, Julia M.;, Stevens, Bjorn;   +3 more
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The Intertropical Convergence Zone

, 2017
How are winds created?
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Factors controlling the position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone on an aquaplanet

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2012
Aqua planet experiments performed with fixed sea surface temperatures (SST) using the ECHAM6 GCM are studied to understand properties that influence the position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). A single ITCZ develops when using the Nordeng scheme and a double ITCZ when using the Tiedtke scheme.
Benjamin Möbis, Bjorn Stevens
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Dynamics of the Intertropical Convergence Zone of the East Pacific

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2006
AbstractThe dynamical factors controlling the mean state and variability of the east Pacific intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and the associated cross-equatorial boundary layer flow are investigated using observations from the East Pacific Investigation of Climate (EPIC2001) project.
David J. Raymond, Christopher S. Bretherton, John Molinari   +2 more
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On the meridional asymmetry of the poleward‐displaced intertropical convergence zone

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Abstract We analyze the mean dynamical structure of the lower atmosphere over the tropical East Pacific and Atlantic basins during boreal summer, when the sea‐surface temperature (SST) is maximized well poleward of the Equator.
Praturi, Divya Sri, Stevens, Bjorn
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Convection in the east Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone [PDF]

Geophysical Research Letters, 2017
AbstractThe eastern tropical Pacific exhibits a strong, cross‐equatorial sea surface temperature (SST) gradient, which drives a southerly flow in the atmospheric boundary layer. Convergence in this flow is generally considered to drive deep convection in the east Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone.
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A contracting Intertropical Convergence Zone during the Early Heinrich Stadial 1. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2023
Yang Y, Zhang L, Yi L, Zhong F, Lu Z, Wan S, Du Y, Xiang R.   +7 more
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Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on early cretaceous plant distribution in the South Atlantic. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
de A Carvalho M, Lana CC, Sá NP, Santiago G, Giannerini MCS, Bengtson P.   +5 more
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Coupled dynamics of the North Equatorial Countercurrent and Intertropical Convergence Zone with relevance to the double-ITCZ problem. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Li Z, Fedorov AV.
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