PUBLICATIONS Reviews of Geophysics REVIEW ARTICLE Opportunities for hydrologic research in the Congo Basin 10.1002/2016RG000517 Douglas Alsdorf1, Ed Beighley2, Alain Laraque3, Hyongki Lee4, Raphael Tshimanga5, ’ 6 7 8 9 10 Key Points: Fiachra O Loughlin , Gil Mahé , Bienvenu Dinga , Guy Moukandi , and Robert G. M. Spencer • Archived records exist for hundreds of 1 stream and rain gauges Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, • Cuvette wetlands may be dominated 2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 3GET, UMR by rainfall instead of fluvial water CNRS/IRD/UPS, UMR 5563 du CNRS, UR 234 de l’IRD, OMP, Toulouse, France, 4Department of Civil and Environmental exchange Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, 5Department of Natural Resources Management, Faculty of • The “tropical rainbelt” may be changing in response to global warming, as Agronomic Sciences, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DRC and CB-HYDRONET (Congo Basin Network for Research and 6 evidenced in Congo discharge records Capacity Building in Water Resources), University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 7Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, HydroSciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 8Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Exactes et Naturelles, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, Supporting Information: 9 10 • French Translation Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique, Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA Correspondence to: D. Alsdorf,
[email protected] Abstract We review the published results on the Congo Basin hydrology and summarize the historic and ongoing research.