[gradsusr] how to visualize the ITCZ ?

[Eric Altshuler]

Hello Kishore, 


The ITCZ is usually located in the tropical belt between 20S and 20N, depending on time of year. Within this band, it's often between 5S - 15N. Look at precipitation, outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), or cloud variables depending on what fields are available from the model. Keep in mind that GCMs often have large biases in tropical precipitation. 


Best regards, 


Eric L. Altshuler 
Research Scientist 
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies 
253 Research Hall, Mail Stop 6C5 
George Mason University 
4400 University Drive 
Fairfax, VA 22030 USA 

E-mail: ela at cola.iges.org 
Phone: (703) 993-5725 
Fax: (703) 993-5770 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kishore Ragi" <kishoreragi at gmail.com> 
To: "GrADS Users Forum" <gradsusr at gradsusr.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 12:58:30 PM 
Subject: [gradsusr] how to visualize the ITCZ ? 


Dear grads users, 


Could please anybody tell me how to visualize the ITCZ with GCM output with grads/other? 


Help is highly appreciated. 


Regards, 


Kishore 
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