I often start researching my way down one road and then I get sidetractored into a different path … in this case I eventually noticed an oddity of that graphic. It’s an area that gets thunderstorms most days, which reflect lots of sunlight back out to space.īut that’s not what first caught my eye … That’s the location of the ITCZ, the “intertropical convergence zone” where the atmospheric circulations of the northern and southern hemisphere meet. And you can see the light line above the equator in the Pacific. The least is up on the Antarctic Plateau.
Average total radiation absorbed by the surface, shortwave + longwave, on a 1° latitude by 1° latitude gridcell basis.Īs you might imagine, the most absorption is in the tropics.
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