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It was -- it got into something called the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
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This is an area called the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
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The drought of 2005, however, occurred when the tropical North Atlantic warming event not only weakened the trades, but also moved something called the Intertropical Convergence Zone, which normally douses the Amazon with rain, north, above Venezuela.
The Gasping Forest Shoumatoff, Alex 2007
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According to the experts, the unusually intense rains have been caused by two simultaneous climate phenomena: La Niña, characterised by an atypical cooling of the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean, and the formation of a low pressure belt on land in the equatorial region, known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone, when hot, humid winds bring cloud masses and cause heavier than normal rainfall, usually in March and April, in northeastern Brazil.
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On its flight northeast from Rio, the aircraft would have had to pass through a notorious storm patch shifting around the equator known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
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It was heading toward a notorious stormy patch that shifts around the equator known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
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According to the experts, the unusually intense rains have been caused by two simultaneous climate phenomena: La Niña, characterised by an atypical cooling of the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean, and the formation of a low pressure belt on land in the equatorial region, known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone, when hot, humid winds bring cloud masses and cause heavier than normal rainfall, usually in March and April, in northeastern Brazil.
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Scientists thought they knew what caused those rains: a season-following belt of clouds along the equator known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
innovations-report 2008
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Scientists thought they knew what caused those rains: a season-following belt of clouds along the equator known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
innovations-report 2008
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Scientists thought they knew what caused those rains: a season-following belt of clouds along the equator known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
innovations-report 2008
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