Correlating extremes in wind and stress divergence with extremes in rain over the Tropical Atlantic

GP King, M Portabella, W Lin, A Stoffelen - 2017 - digital.csic.es
… between wind and rain. Categories of wind divergence, wind stress divergence, and rainfall
… of extreme rain and extreme convergence/divergence. This showed that when there is …

Correlating extremes in wind divergence with extremes in rain over the tropical Atlantic

GP King, M Portabella, W Lin, A Stoffelen - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Atlantic Ocean. We show that when there is extreme rain, there is extreme convergence/divergence
Probability distributions for wind divergence and rain rates were found to be heavy-…

[PDF][PDF] The tropical Atlantic trade winds as related to droughts in northeastern Brazil

JCM Chung - 1981 - dspace.mit.edu
… The divergence over the South Atlantic is seen to be stronger … the South Atlantic shows a
tendency toward an extreme, but … the South Atlantic from east to west is correlated with rainy

Correlating extremes in wind divergence with extremes in rain over the Tropical Atlantic

M Portabella, GP King, W Lin, A Stoffelen - 2019 - digital.csic.es
… the extreme convergence/divergence occurs … extremes in wind/wind stress curl, and
identifying and tracking spatial clusters of extreme rain and the change in their correlation with wind

Correlating extremes in wind and stress divergence with extremes in rain over the Tropical Atlantic

GP King, M Portabella, W Lin, A Stoffelen - 2018 - digital.csic.es
Correlating extremes in wind and stress divergence with extremes in rain over the Tropical
Atlantic | DIGITAL.CSIC … Correlating extremes in wind and stress divergence with …

Coupling between the Atlantic cold tongue and the West African monsoon in boreal spring and summer

G Caniaux, H Giordani, JL Redelsperger… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
over the warm SSTAs and a decrease in rainfall over the … wind stress, the meridional
wind stress, the divergence of the … C 1 and C 3 have extremes positioned just on the equator …

Characterizing ERA-Interim and ERA5 surface wind biases using ASCAT

M Belmonte Rivas, A Stoffelen - Ocean Science, 2019 - os.copernicus.org
… and transient wind errors, wind divergence and wind stress curl … Pacific and Atlantic oceans,
the SST gradient effect that we … Extreme surface wind divergence events have also been …

[HTML][HTML] Co-Variability between the Surface Wind Divergence and Vorticity over the Ocean

R Jacobs, LW O'Neill - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
… a strong correlation between divergence and vorticity throughout … by relatively extreme values
of either divergence or vorticity. This … probability in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. …

ERAstar: A high-resolution ocean forcing product

A Trindade, M Portabella, A Stoffelen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… the rainy areas of the east–west oriented bands in the tropics, … This figure shows a zoom
over the tropical Atlantic for the two … evident in wind derivative products, such as divergence or …

Atlantic air-sea interaction

J Bjerknes - Advances in geophysics, 1964 - Elsevier
divergence in regions of cyclonic vorticity of wind stress and … Inversely correlated pressure
changes in the mid-Atlantic and … , of the only major extreme of Atlantic sea temperature which …