Figure 2

Spatial scales for monthly land surface temperature (LST) (a,b,e,f,i,j) and precipitation (P) (c,d,g,h,k,l) in four cardinal directions and their two backward/forward combinations: northward, eastward, southward, westward, south-north, and west-east. (Figure was created using Grads version 2.0.2, http://iges.org/grads/).