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Narrowing of the ITCZ in a warming climate: Physical mechanisms
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The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) narrows in response to global warming in both observations and climate models. However, a physical understanding of this narrowing is lacking. Here we show that the narrowing of the ITCZ in simulations of future climate is related to changes in the moist static energy (MSE) budget. MSE advection by the mean circulation and MSE divergence by transient eddies tend to narrow the ITCZ, while changes in net energy input to the atmosphere and the gross mois...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1002/2016GL070396
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- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Geophysical Research Letters Journal website
- Volume:
- 43
- Issue:
- 21
- Pages:
- 11,350-11,357
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-14
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0094-8276
- Pubs id:
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pubs:942647
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uri:85be5944-9a9c-491c-9cd8-326aa96e53e9
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uuid:85be5944-9a9c-491c-9cd8-326aa96e53e9
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- pubs:942647
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- American Geophysical Union
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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