Figures for \"California forest die-off linked to multi-year deep soil drying in 2012-2015 drought\"

Data underlying main figures in \"California forest die-off linked to multi-year deep soil drying in 2012-2015 drought\", published in Nature-Geoscience, July 2019, ML Goulden and RC Bales. 

Abstract of paper: Widespread episodes of recent forest die-off have been tied to the occurrence of anomalously warm droughts, though the underlying mechanisms remain inadequately understood. California’s 2012-2015 drought, with exceptionally low precipitation and warmth and widespread conifer death, provides an opportunity to explore the chain of events leading to forest die-off. Here we present the spatial and temporal patterns of die-off and moisture deficit during California’s drought based on field and remote-sensing observations.  We found that die-off was closely tied to multi-year deep-rooting-zone drying, and that this relationship provides a framework to diagnose and predict mortality. Marked tree death in an intensively studied Sierra Nevada forest followed a four-year moisture overdraft...