Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01678-5. Published online 25 May 2023.

In the version of this article initially published, there was an error in Figure 1b where the key for increase in convective mass flux (ΔMc/Mc > 0) was labeled incorrectly (ΔMc/Mc <0); the error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.