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Migration of the intertropical convergence zone driven by ocean circulation changes [PDF]

Nature Communications
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is essential to global precipitation patterns and has major socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Yet its future position remains uncertain.
Yaru Guo, Aixue Hu, Gerald A. Meehl, Maria J. Molina, Hui Li, Katinka Bellomo, Nan Rosenbloom   +6 more
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Energetic Constraints on the ITCZ Position in Idealized Simulations With a Seasonal Cycle

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2018
The atmospheric energy budget has recently been shown to provide powerful constraints on the position and shifts of the zonal and annual mean intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), which lies close to the latitude of zero vertically integrated energy ...
Ho-Hsuan Wei, Simona Bordoni
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Spatiotemporal Intertropical Convergence Zone dynamics during the last 3 millennia in northeastern Brazil and related impacts in modern human history [PDF]

Climate of the Past, 2023
Changes in tropical precipitation over the past millennia have usually been associated with latitudinal displacements of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
G. Utida, F. W. Cruz, M. Vuille, A. Ampuero, V. F. Novello, J. Maksic, G. Sampaio, H. Cheng, H. Cheng, H. Cheng, H. Zhang, F. R. Dias de Andrade, R. L. Edwards   +12 more
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An Intertropical Convergence Zone shift controlled the terrestrial material supply on the Ninetyeast Ridge [PDF]

Climate of the Past, 2022
Among various climate drivers, direct evidence for the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) control of sediment supply on the millennial scale is lacking, and the changes in ITCZ migration demonstrated in paleoclimate records need to be better ...
X. Xu, X. Xu, X. Xu, J. Liu, J. Liu, J. Liu, Y. Huang, L. Zhang, L. Zhang, L. Yi, S. Liu, S. Liu, Y. Yang, Y. Yang, L. Cao, L. Tan, L. Tan, L. Tan   +17 more
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A climate network perspective on the intertropical convergence zone [PDF]

Earth System Dynamics, 2021
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.
F. Wolf, F. Wolf, A. Voigt, A. Voigt, R. V. Donner, R. V. Donner   +5 more
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The Effect of Atmosphere‐Ocean Coupling on the Sensitivity of the ITCZ to Convective Mixing

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2020
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a discontinuous, zonal precipitation band that plays a crucial role in the global hydrological cycle. Previous studies using prescribed sea surface temperature (SST) aquaplanets show the ITCZ is sensitive to ...
J. Talib, S. J. Woolnough, N. P. Klingaman, C. E. Holloway   +3 more
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Hemispherically asymmetric volcanic forcing of tropical hydroclimate during the last millennium [PDF]

Earth System Dynamics, 2016
Volcanic aerosols exert the most important natural radiative forcing of the last millennium. State-of-the-art paleoclimate simulations of this interval are typically forced with diverse spatial patterns of volcanic forcing, leading to different responses
C. M. Colose, A. N. LeGrande, M. Vuille
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Impact of ITCZ width on global climate: ITCZ-MIP [PDF]

Geoscientific Model Development
The width of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affects tropical rainfall, Earth's albedo, large-scale circulation, and climate sensitivity. To better understand the ITCZ width and its effects on global climate, we present a protocol to force ...
A. G. Pendergrass, A. G. Pendergrass, M. P. Byrne, M. P. Byrne, O. Watt-Meyer, O. Watt-Meyer, P. Maher, M. J. Webb   +7 more
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Observed variability of intertropical convergence zone over 1998—2018

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) accounts for more than 30% of the global precipitation and its variability has a great effect on the people living in the tropical area.
Chunlei Liu, Xiaoqing Liao, Juliao Qiu, Yazhu Yang, Xiaoli Feng, Richard P Allan, Ning Cao, Jingchao Long, Jianjun Xu   +8 more
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Impact of warm ENSO events on atmospheric circulation and convection over the tropical Atlantic and West Africa [PDF]

Annales Geophysicae, 1997
Empirical studies have shown that warm El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) episodes are associated during northern summer with, first, a southward location of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) over the tropical Atlantic, and, second, a ...
S. Janicot
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