Response to comment on “Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño”

  • Junjie Liu
  • , Kevin W. Bowman
  • , David Schimel
  • , Nicolas C. Parazoo
  • , Zhe Jiang
  • , Meemong Lee
  • , A. Anthony Bloom
  • , Debra Wunch
  • , Christian Frankenberg
  • , Ying Sun
  • , Christopher W. O'Dell
  • , Kevin R. Gurney
  • , Dimitris Menemenlis
  • , Michelle Gierach
  • , David Crisp
  • , Annmarie Eldering

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Abstract

Chevallier showed a column CO2 (XCO2 ) anomaly of ±0.5 parts per million forced by a uniform net biosphere exchange (NBE) anomaly of 2.5 gigatonnes of carbon over the tropical continents within a year, so he claimed that the inferred NBE uncertainties should be larger than presented in Liu et al. We show that a much concentrated NBE anomaly led to much larger XCO2 perturbations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numbereaat1211
JournalScience
Volume362
Issue number6418
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 30 2018
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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