“…These studies have been undertaken in North America (Lawrence et al 1982, Friedman et al 2002, Burnett et al 2004, Sjostrom and Welker 2009, Ersek et al 2010, Sinclair et al 2011, Europe (Gat and Carmi 1970, Dirican et al 2003, Baldini et al 2010, Asia (Fudeyasu et al 2011, Liu et al 2011), Australia (Barras and Simmonds 2008 and one looked at precipitation origins in Lake Tanganika, Africa (Lewis et al 2010). Related modeling efforts include atmospheric dynamics and land-atmosphere exchange (Rozanski et al 1982, Yoshimura et al 2003, Henderson-Sellers et al 2006, Levin et al 2009, Yoshimura et al 2010, Zhao et al 2012.…”