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The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future pp 121–152Cite as

The Shape of Continents, Air-Sea Interaction, and the Rising Branch of the Hadley Circulation

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This chapter begins with a brief history of Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) research. It then goes on to summarize recent progress in understanding why the ITCZ is locked in the Northern Hemisphere in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and how this northward-displaced ITCZ affects the space-time structure of tropical climate variability.

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Xie, SP. (2004). The Shape of Continents, Air-Sea Interaction, and the Rising Branch of the Hadley Circulation. In: Diaz, H.F., Bradley, R.S. (eds) The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2944-8_5

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