The band of heavy precipitation indicates the intertropical convergence zone. The new findings are based on sediment cores from lakes and lagoons on Palau, Washington, Christmas and Galapagos islands.

The ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) play important role in the global circulation system and also known as the Equatorial Convergence Zone or Intertropical Front. It is a basically low ...

ITCZ is short for Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone. It's can be found across the globe appearing as a band of showers and thunderstorms near the equator. It forms from the convergence, or coming ...

"The double Intertropical Convergence Zone is usually only identified in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans on a limited and seasonal basis," said Dr. Timothy Liu, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Figure 1: Map of core locations and approximate ... Southward migration of the intertropical convergence zone through the Holocene. Science 293, 1304–1308 (2001). Article Google Scholar ...

including the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). So, whatexactly is the ITCZ, and how does it affect the weather over the equator?The ITCZ is one of Earth's largest and most influential ...