Collaborative Research: The Relationship between the Trade Wind Inversion Layer and the Seasonal Development…

Overview

For most of the year there is a strong rainfall contrast across the equator in the eastern Pacific, with heavy convective precipitation in the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) north of the equator but only cloud cover and drizzle to the south. Several factors contribute to the rainfall contrast: in the ITCZ surface wind convergence provides uplift, low atmospheric stabilit…