Correlating Extremes in Wind Divergence with Extremes in Rain over the Tropical Atlantic

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: King, Gregory P., Portabella, Marcos, Lin, Wenming, Stoffelen, Ad
• Other Authors: Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), CSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Air–sea interaction; Scatterometer winds; ASCAT; Meteosat Second Generation; Ocean wind divergence; Tropical convection; Mesoscale convective systems; Compound extremes; Heavy-tailed PDFs; Curl; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/263245; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051147

Special Issue Remote Sensing of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions.-- 25 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables, 1 appendix.-- Data Availability Statement: Data supporting reported results can be found at: Meteosat Second Generation rain rates https://msgcpp.knmi.nl/ (accessed on 15 January 2022); wind divergence (...