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Observed river discharge data for the Congo Kinshasa station was accessed from the GRDC (www.bafg.de/GRDC) archives and used to assess hydrological response of the Congo River to climatic fluctuations. The Congo River is one of the key rivers in the region, as multiple sources of discharge from other tributaries within the Congo Basin connect with this channel before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. While the Congo River discharge encapsulates most of the flows within the basin (Ndehedehe et al., 2019), this river largely modulates the surface water hydrology of the Congo Basin (e.g., Alsdorf et al., 2016; Ndehedehe et al., 2018b). The monthly river discharge data of the Congo River in Kinshasa station covering the period between 1980 and 2010 was used in combination with sea‐surface temperature to model the impacts of the surrounding oceans on temporal dynamics of Congo River discharge. But in assessing climate influence on surface water hydrology (i.e., TWS) over the Congo Basin, the data covering the period during 2002–2010 was used.