An uncertainty-focused database approach to extract spatiotemporal trends from qualitative and discontinuous lake-status histories

Funding acknowledgments: Belgian Science Policy (Belspo) project BR/121/A2 PAMEXEA: Patterns and mechanisms of climate extremes in East Africa Belgian-American Educational Foundation (BAEF) Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) project 200021_169598 HORNET Trapnell Fund, Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford European Research Council (ERC) project 694481 GC2.0: Global Change 2.0: Unlocking the past for a clearer future JPI-Belmont Forum project PaCMEDy: Palaeoclimate constraints on monsoon evolution and dynamics International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) project PALCOM 1609P: Palaeolakes of the Arid Southern Hemisphere National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship