Articles | Volume 17, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6393-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6393-2020
Research article
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17 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 17 Dec 2020

Lagged effects regulate the inter-annual variability of the tropical carbon balance

A. Anthony Bloom, Kevin W. Bowman, Junjie Liu, Alexandra G. Konings, John R. Worden, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Victoria Meyer, John T. Reager, Helen M. Worden, Zhe Jiang, Gregory R. Quetin, T. Luke Smallman, Jean-François Exbrayat, Yi Yin, Sassan S. Saatchi, Mathew Williams, and David S. Schimel

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (20 May 2020) by Andreas Ibrom
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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Aug 2020) by Andreas Ibrom
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Sep 2020)
ED: Publish as is (26 Sep 2020) by Andreas Ibrom
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We use a model of the 2001–2015 tropical land carbon cycle, with satellite measurements of land and atmospheric carbon, to disentangle lagged and concurrent effects (due to past and concurrent meteorological events, respectively) on annual land–atmosphere carbon exchanges. The variability of lagged effects explains most 2001–2015 inter-annual carbon flux variations. We conclude that concurrent and lagged effects need to be accurately resolved to better predict the world's land carbon sink.
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