\label{fig:ciCycle} Rainfall and CI (as well as its different components) of historical$-$AMIP for MRI-CGCM3 averaged over East Africa (the gray shaded grids shown in the mini panel of Fig. \ref{fig:boxplotAmip}). $h_{src}$ is the near surface moist static energy and $h_{700mb}^{*}$ is the 700 hPa saturated moist static energy. CI is measured as $h_{sfc} -  h_{700mb}^{*}$. $h_{sfc}(q)$  and $h_{src}(T)$ are the components of $h_{sfc}$ associated with moisture and temperature, respectively. 