1 Erratum to: Clim Dyn DOI 10.1007/s00382-012-1376-2

The authors report an imagery error that occurred during the production process in the 2nd page of the above paper. The affected figure (Fig. 1) is reprinted below with the domain corrected.

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a July–August climatology of precipitation (contours; mm/day) and the topography (shadings), and b annual lightning frequency between 1997 and 2002 derived from the Lightning Imaging Sensor onboard the TRMM satellite and between 1995 and 2000 by the Optical Transient Detector (Source: NASA Earth Observatory Webpage). The black dot in a marks Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city

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