\label{fig:boxplotAmip} East African rainfall annual cycles from observations, the  ERA-Interim Re-Analysis  and  AMIP runs of 21 CMIP5 models. All of the annual cycles are  averaged over the gray shaded grids as shown in the mini panel, where the red lines are the 1 km elevation contours. Box plots show the statistics across the 21 models and the blue line is the multimodel mean (MMM).