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

Figure 5

The first four Eof spatial patterns of the extreme rainfall standardized anomalies calculated on the chronological series of the 18 annual values × 340 grid points ((a), (b), (c), and (d)) and their corresponding time series ((e), (f), (g), and (h)). The white contours show the 95%-level significant areas while blue curves are the shapes of the time series.

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