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ITCZ
(redirected from Intertropical Convergence Zone)

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ITCZIntertropical Convergence Zone


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The work found that the aerosols reached as far south as the Intertropical Convergence Zone, close to the equator, where trade winds swirl together and shoot hot air to high altitudes.
Lamb suspects that the drought/SST pattern, which shifts the region of highest sea surface temperatures 300 km to the south, similarly shifts the so-called intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), where wind fields from the two hemispheres meet.
 
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