Acknowledgements
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Edisson Andrés Quichimbo received financial support from Cardiff University through a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship.
Mark O. Cuthbert gratefully acknowledges funding for an Independent Research Fellowship from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (grant no. NE/P017819/1).
Michael Bliss Singer has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grant nos. BCS-1660490 and EAR-1700517) and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (grant no. RC18-1006).
Rafael Rosolem has been supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), under the MOSAIC Digital Environment Feasibility Study (grant no. NE/T005645/1), and by the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations (IAEA/UN; project no. CRP D12014).
The team has been supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF; “Impacts of Climate Change on the Water Balance in East African Drylands”), The Royal Society (“DRIER”, grant no. CHL\R1\180485), and the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme (“DOWN2EARTH”, grant no. 869550).