West Africa Extreme Rainfall Events and Large-Scale Ocean Surface and Atmospheric Conditions in the Tropical Atlantic

Figure 2

(a) Spatial distribution of the 90th-percentile values used as the thresholds above which each daily precipitation is defined as an extreme event. (b) Ratio pattern of the total number of extreme days. (c) Ratio pattern of the cumulated extreme events amount against the cumulated amount of the 3852 days.

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