{"id":1104,"date":"2024-02-16T15:09:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:47:24","slug":"new-paper-published-on-the-relationship-between-low-clouds-the-equatorial-cold-tongue-and-the-itcz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/new-paper-published-on-the-relationship-between-low-clouds-the-equatorial-cold-tongue-and-the-itcz\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex, Indrani, Marissa and co-authors publish paper on the relationship between low clouds, the equatorial cold tongue, and the ITCZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 16, Alex, Indrani, Marissa and co-authors (Gregory Cesana and Charlotte DeMott) published a paper entitled, &#8220;Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ&#8221; in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (<a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2023JD039571\">https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2023JD039571<\/a>). Congrats to everyone involved!<\/p>\n<p>The three key points of the paper are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>East Pacific ITCZ surface wind convergence is strongly controlled by SST and boundary layer (BL) horizontal temperature gradients<\/li>\n<li>SST gradients overemphasize the equatorial cold tongue leading to excessive equatorial divergence and latitudinally confined double ITCZs<\/li>\n<li>BL temperature gradients show a shallow cold tongue and deep cold air below the trade wind inversion are key to maintaining a northern ITCZ<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1037\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1037\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1037\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/10\/Low-cloud-ITCZ-_final-1-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/10\/Low-cloud-ITCZ-_final-1-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/10\/Low-cloud-ITCZ-_final-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/10\/Low-cloud-ITCZ-_final-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/10\/Low-cloud-ITCZ-_final-1-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/10\/Low-cloud-ITCZ-_final-1-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conceptual figure of the importance of cooling at the top of low clouds and near the equatorial cold tongue on wind convergence in the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) over the east Pacific Ocean. Illustration by Caitlin Guttu and Natalie Renier, WHOI.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 16, Alex, Indrani, Marissa and co-authors (Gregory Cesana and Charlotte DeMott) published a paper entitled, &#8220;Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ&#8221; in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2023JD039571). Congrats to everyone involved! The three key points of the paper are: East Pacific ITCZ surface wind&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}