Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02034-x
How the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) changes has strong effects on tropical regions. Here the authors show that while the ITCZ moves northwards over the first one to two decades of CO2 emissions, the long-term migration is southward, linked to delayed surface warming in the Southern Ocean.