are located a little equatorward of the climatologies, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. The land and ocean breakdown of the latitudinal profile is shown in Fig. 6, where it can be seen the double peak exists in the ocean by itself, but that the land profile has its overall peak just south of the equator. The land peak is closer to the equator than the ocean peak. The GPCP NH midlatitude peak is similar in magnitude and shape to that of the LW profile ( Fig. 5 ) with higher values than the JAE profile. The main peak, at about 40N is an oceanic peak, not showing up over land (see Fig. 6 ). It is mainly composed of the two oceanic storm tracks east of Asia and North America. Poleward of that peak, the GPCP curve in Fig. 5 has a weak secondary maximum at 55N, which is clearly based over land (see Fig. 6 ). The LW climatology has a similar feature. The ocean profile in Fig. 6 does show a leveling off before a steep drop off to the pole. This high-latitude activity perhaps reflects a separate cyclone track at this latitude, and also the southwest-to-northeast (ocean to land) orientation of the main midlatitude rain features in the NH. From 55N the mean precipitation decreases rapidly toward the pole dropping below 1 mm day