Tropical Atlantic Hurricanes, Easterly Waves, and West African Mesoscale Convective Systems
Figure 8
SST anomaly composites () for 2004 (a) and 2005 (b) computed as the averages of the weekly SST anomalies extracted around the periods of the initiation of the long-lived MCSs. Wind anomaly at 1000 hPa from the day of the initiation of the long-lived MCS to the day at which the easterly wave left the African coast is also represented.
