Response to Comment on "Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015-2016 El Niño".

Liu, Junjie; Bowman, Kevin W; Schimel, David; Parazoo, Nicolas C; Jiang, Zhe; Lee, Meemong; Bloom, A Anthony; Wunch, Debra et al. · Science · 2018

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Abstract

Chevallier showed a column CO<sub>2</sub> ([Formula: see text]) 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 <i>et al</i> We show that a much concentrated NBE anomaly led to much larger [Formula: see text] perturbations.