New paper published on the evolution of low-level winds in the ITCZ

In early January, Alex Gonzalez, Indrani Ganguly, and James Larson published a journal article in the Journal of Climate on the daily to weekly evolution of low-level winds and convergence prior to the intensification of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) over the east Pacific Ocean using observational and reanalysis data sets: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/35/4/JCLI-D-21-0216.1.xml.

The study focused on months of February, March, and April, when the east Pacific Ocean ITCZ is often situated in the Northern Hemisphere (nITCZ) or there can be one ITCZ is located in each hemisphere, a double ITCZ (dITCZ). These are also the months with the largest double ITCZ biases in climate models. This study aims to add to our process-level understanding of the development of low-level winds that are a key component to ITCZ convection and precipitation.