Research Article
West Africa Extreme Rainfall Events and Large-Scale Ocean Surface and Atmospheric Conditions in the Tropical Atlantic
Figure 8
Composite patterns of SST (shaded) and moisture flux at 700 hPa (blue vectors, 10−3 g kg−1 m s−1) performed as the difference between years of extreme rainfall exceedance and those of extreme rainfall deficit from the time series of the extreme rainfall amount of (a) Eof1, (b) Eof2, (c) Eof3, and (d) Eof4. Black contours on the tropical Atlantic provide the 95% confidence Student’s -test.
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