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The latitude of the tropical rainbelt is constrained by the energy balance between hemispheres. An expansion of this theory that includes longitudinal variations of atmospheric heating can predict regional changes in tropical precipitation.

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Figure 1: Mechanisms of tropical precipitation changes.

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  1. Aaron Donohoe is at the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, 1013 NE 40th Street, Washington 98105-6698, USA,

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Donohoe, A. Energy and precipitation. Nature Geosci 9, 861–862 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2846

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