%0 Journal article %A Windmiller, Julia M. %A Stevens, Bjorn %T The inner life of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone %R 10.1002/qj.4610 %J Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society %V 150 %N 758 %I John Wiley & Sons%C Ltd %X
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a central component of the atmospheric general circulation, but remarkably little is known about the dynamical and thermodynamical structure of the convergence zone itself. This is true even for the structure of the low‐level convergence that gives the ITCZ its name. Following on from the major international field campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s, we performed extensive atmospheric profiling of the Atlantic ITCZ during a ship‐based measurement campaign aboard the research vessel