Fig. 13From: Maritime continent coastlines controlling Earth’s climatea Share of rainfall observed by TRMM−PR (latitude < 37°; December 1997–January 2011) and land area and b rainfall “heaviness” relative to the whole tropical mean, as functions of the coastal distance. c Histogram of grid cell numbers and d the normalized histogram, and e histogram of coastal share, all as functions of rainfall intensity. After Ogino et al. (2016)Back to article page