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The Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), also known as the Intertropical Front or the Equatorial Convergence Zone, is a belt of low pressure girdling Earth at the equator. It is formed, as its name indicates, by the convergence of warm, moist air from the latitudes above and below the equator.

Intertropical Convergence Zone
(abbrev. ITCZ) The boundary zone separating the northeast trade winds of the Northern Hemisphere from the southeast trade winds of the Southern Hemisphere.

Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ): belt of clouds and thunderstorms that runs parallel to the equator and marks where the trade winds of both hemispheres come together. Shifts seasonally, and is associated with monsoons and dry seasons in some regions.

Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) Discontinuous belt of thunderstorms paralleling the equator and marking the convergence of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere surface trade winds.
Inverse square law Intensity of radiation decreases as the inverse square of distance traveled. ...

Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
An area where the Northern and Southern Hemispheric trade winds converge. It is a broad area of low pressure where both the coriolis force and the low-level pressure gradient are weak, occasionally allowing tropical disturbances to form.

~—The boundary zone between the trade wind system of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; it is characterized in maritime climates by showery precipitation with cumulonimbus clouds sometimes extending to great heights.

~ (ITCZ)- The region where the northeasterly and southeasterly trade winds converge, forming an often continuous band of clouds or thunderstorms near the equator.

The ~ (ITCZ) Highly visible on satellite imagery of the Earth's equatorial regions, this is the somewhat narrow discontinuous belt along either side of the equator where convective clouds and thunderstorms often dominate.

The zone separating the wind circulations of the northern and southern hemispheres. Over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, where it is closely related to the doldrums, it is the zone between the north-east and the south-east trade winds.

ITCZ: ~. Trough located next to the equator, delimiting the convergence zone of the air that moves from the subtropical regions of both hemispheres towards the equator. It is the confluence zone of the southeast and northeast trade winds.

It is a plume-like object that extends from the ~ (ITCZ) northward or southward into the higher latitudes. It is usually located over a 850 to 700 mb theta-e ridge axis. As a result, it is a favored location for the development of a Mesoscale Convective Complex.

The first is the ~ (ITCZ). The ITCZ is a near-solid ring of thunderstorms surrounding the globe found in the tropics.

equatorial convergence zone - Same as ~.

The quasi-continuous area of low pressure between the subtropical high pressure areas in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
Related terms: ~ (ITCZ) and doldrums ...

See ~ (ITCZ) or the Horse Latitudes. DOPPLER RADAR Weather radar that measures direction and speed of a moving object, such as drops of precipitation, by determining whether atmospheric motion is horizontally toward or away from the radar.

See also: See also: What is the meaning of Convergence, Convergence zone, Storm, Surface, Cloud?

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