Fig. 4: Tropical moisture exports.
From: A global perspective on western Mediterranean precipitation extremes
Sea level pressure and total precipitable water from evaporation over the tropical Pacific during the February 1982 Catalonia (Spain) extreme precipitation event (a). The same fields but referring to moisture from the tropical land (b), the Southern Hemisphere (c), and the tropical Atlantic (d) during the catastrophic Var (France) flood event in June 2010. Fields are shown at 12 UTC on February 16, 1982 (a) and June 15, 2010 (b–d).
