In our basin‐scale assessment, precipitation and runoff show a decreasing trend in the northern and southern regions of the continent (groups 1 and 4) and an increasing trend in tropical Africa and the Sahel (groups 2 and 3), which corroborates the results of previous studies (Dai, 2011a , 2011a , b ; Milly et al., 2005 ).
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