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From: Community structure of tropics emerging from spatio-temporal variations in the Intertropical Convergence Zone dynamics

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Communities in the \(\widetilde{OLR}\) network and time histories of \(\widetilde{OLR}_{clim}\)for representative locations within a community. (a) The community detection algorithm divides the \(\widetilde{OLR}\) network into seven communities. These communities reveal the spatio-temporal dynamics of the \(\widetilde{OLR}\), driven by the ITCZ’s migration and evolution in an annual cycle. Moreover, these communities divide the tropics into regions of distinct \(\widetilde{OLR}\) characteristics. These characteristics are described in (b–g) via annual variation of \(\widetilde{OLR}_{clim}\) at several representative locations within the communities.

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