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

doi:10.1126/science.aat1211

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

Science. 2018 Nov 30;362(6418):eaat1211. doi: 10.1126/science.aat1211.

Authors

Junjie Liu¹, Kevin W Bowman², David Schimel², Nicolas C Parazoo², Zhe Jiang³, Meemong Lee², A Anthony Bloom², Debra Wunch⁴, Christian Frankenberg^{2

5}, Ying Sun², Christopher W O'Dell⁶, Kevin R Gurney⁷, Dimitris Menemenlis², Michelle Gierach², David Crisp², Annmarie Eldering²

Affiliations

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. [email protected].
² Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
³ National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁴ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
⁶ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
⁷ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

PMID: 30498098
DOI: 10.1126/science.aat1211

Abstract

Chevallier showed a column CO₂ ([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 et al We show that a much concentrated NBE anomaly led to much larger [Formula: see text] perturbations.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.