The Intertropical Convergence Zone is usually characterized as a region of converging trade winds and rising air masses near the equator. The air masses, warmed by equatorial heat, float up like ...

Boston College. "Equatorial regions prone to disruptive space weather." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 17 August 2015. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 08 / 150817110640.htm>.

Characteristics of Equatorial climate are a combination of both high and low temperatures. The rain constantly falls throughout the year in these areas, creating evergreen vegetation with ...

A. Guillet, E. J. Moll, STRUCTURAL AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL PATTERNS OF VEGETATION IN EQUATORIAL SUDAN L TERRESTRIAL COMMUNITIES, Coenoses, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer 1992), pp ...

A long, brown oval known as a "brown barge" in Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt is captured in this color-enhanced image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. New simulations show that the search for life ...

In other words, electrical disruptions in the equatorial region do not require severe geomagnetic storms, similar in scale to events that have crashed power grids in the past, most notably in ...