Land: role in the climate system (and subjects related to it)

Land-sea contrast in surface energy and water balance
Capacity of energy storage beyond one season
Possibility of evaporation of water
Climatic characteristics by land-sea contrast (and dry-wet contrast in land)
Annual cycle of air temperature ... amplitude and phase
Amplitude of diurnal cycle of surface temperature
Distribution of seasonal mean high and low pressure centers
Monsoons
Distribution and photosynthesis of land plants
Climatic constraint to land plants ≒ contraints to evaporation
availability of energy
availability of water
Seasonal cycle of water quantity
Seasonal cycle of water balance in large river basins in continents
Seasonal relocation of mass between land, sea & atmosphere (trial calc.)