Response of the intertropical convergence zone to climate change: Location, width, and strength

MP Byrne, AG Pendergrass, AD Rapp… - Current climate change …, 2018‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is a planetary-scale
band of heavy precipitation close to the equator. Here, we consider the response of the ITCZ …

Can southern Australian rainfall decline be explained? A review of possible drivers

RC McKay, G Boschat, I Rudeva… - Wiley …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Southern Australia's rainfall is highly variable and influenced by factors across scales from
synoptic weather to large‐scale circulation and remote climate modes of variability …

Why do precipitation intensities tend to follow gamma distributions?

C Martinez-Villalobos, JD Neelin - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2019‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The probability distribution of daily precipitation intensities, especially the probability of
extremes, impacts a wide range of applications. In most regions this distribution decays …

Narrowing of the ITCZ in a warming climate: Physical mechanisms

MP Byrne, T Schneider - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) narrows in response to global warming
in both observations and climate models. However, a physical understanding of this …

Calibration and uncertainty quantification of convective parameters in an idealized GCM

ORA Dunbar, A Garbuno‐Inigo… - Journal of Advances …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Parameters in climate models are usually calibrated manually, exploiting only small subsets
of the available data. This precludes both optimal calibration and quantification of …

Separating climate change signals into thermodynamic, lapse-rate and circulation effects: theory and application to the European summer climate

N Kröner, S Kotlarski, E Fischer, D Lüthi, E Zubler… - Climate Dynamics, 2017‏ - Springer
Climate models robustly project a strong overall summer warming across Europe showing a
characteristic north-south gradient with enhanced warming and drying in southern Europe …

Is Hadley cell expanding?

T **an, J **a, W Wei, Z Zhang, R Wang, LP Wang… - Atmosphere, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
This review provides a comprehensive coverage of changes of the Hadley Cell extent and
their impacts on the weather, climate, and society. The theories predicting the Hadley Cell …

Concurrent changes to Hadley circulation and the meridional distribution of tropical cyclones

J Studholme, S Gulev - Journal of Climate, 2018‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Poleward trends in seasonal-mean latitudes of tropical cyclones (TCs) have been identified
in direct observations from 1980 to the present. Paleoclimate reconstructions also indicate …

[HTML][HTML] The TropD software package (v1): standardized methods for calculating tropical-width diagnostics

O Adam, KM Grise, P Staten, IR Simpson… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018‏ - gmd.copernicus.org
Observational and modeling studies suggest that Earth's tropical belt has widened over the
late 20th century and will continue to widen throughout the 21st century. Yet, estimates of …

The Hadley circulation in a changing climate

P Lionello, R D'Agostino, D Ferreira… - Annals of the New …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The Hadley circulation (HC) is a global‐scale atmospheric feature with air descending in the
subtropics and ascending in the tropics, which plays a fundamental role in Earth's climate …