continentality
nounEtymology From continental + -ity.
1
The condition of being a continent.
2
The degree to which the climate of a place is affected by a large land mass.
- Continentality (reflecting the difference between continental and marine climates) was, on average, the most important factor, contributing an average of 14.91% (based on permutation importance), followed by temperature seasonality…2021, Hong Zhou et al., “Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses”, in Cell: