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Drought in the Congo Basin

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A remote-sensing analysis of tropical forests in the Congo Basin that are experiencing chronic drought reveals consistent patterns of reduced vegetation greenness, increased temperatures and decreased water storage. See Letter p.86

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Figure 1: Long-term drying.

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  1. Jeffrey Q. Chambers is in the Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-4740, USA.,

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  2. Dar A. Roberts is in the Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4060, USA.,

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Chambers, J., Roberts, D. Drought in the Congo Basin. Nature 509, 36–37 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13330

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