Response to Comment on "Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015-2016 El Nino"
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 14:10
in Earth & Climate
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.