The objectives of this study have been retrieving the atmospheric components of the hydrological cycle using satellite observations and diagnosing the relationships between them, focusing on anomalous wind events.
Precipitable water is retrieved using an algorithm that performs best in the tropics.
The behaviors of the humidity variations have been found to be closely tied to the anomalous wind regimes in the equatorial western Pacific warm pool region. It is also found that the presence of different cloud types, precipitable water, cloud structure, and precipitation patterns all display very different behaviors between a westerly wind burst even and an easterly wind burst event.