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Graphic courtesy of John Chiang. The clouds in the left of the schematic represent the dominant convection center in the tropics, coincident with the warm pool. The Sahel is represented as a lesser area of convection. The two regions are connected via the free troposphere, where temperature anomalies are quickly homogenized by transport
