@yconsor Yes, I've already discussed this bias before & some of its implications on Atlantic TC activity & the WAM. This bias doesn't necessarily emanate from new research, even in the mid-late 2000s, it was widely documented w/ earlier versions of
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For relevant literature regarding this bias, the model bias image was taken from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 5th Assessment Report (AR5) (p. 763). https://t.co/toPX8px3t2 Richter & Xie (2008) also provide nice supplemental in
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@EricBlake12 @AndyHazelton @Philly_Weather1 @cyclonicwx @pppapin @ChrisLandsea Here's fig 9.4 from IPCC's discussion on CMIP5. These aforementioned equatorward ITCZ biases over the Atlantic & west Africa begin in northern spring & cascade into summ