Dear authors:

Thank you for providing the author comments. Your manuscript received two referee reports and two ‘unsolicited’ reviews, which did not foresee. The two referees evaluated positively about your manuscript, especially in terms of scientific significance (scored 'excellent'). They also thought that your manuscript has good to excellent scientific quality and presentation quality. Based on these evaluations, I conclude that your manuscript would be subject to minor revisions.
I studied the referee reports, short comments, and your replies on the open discussion and then confirmed that you provided adequate responses to all the comments. As long as I know, this is one of a few studies that mentioned about the influences of short-term variations such as Madden-Julian Oscillation on terrestrial vegetation activity. Also, your justification and additional analyses on the time-lag effect look reasonable.

Dear Authors:

Thank you for uploading the revised manuscript with your reply and correction history files. The Methods and Results sections became clearer, and Discussion sections were reinforced. Therefore, the revision looks sufficient for publication, except for a few technical corrections.

1. Page 13 Figure 3: Can you enlarge characters in the head of the b and c panels (e.g. “Herbaceous closed”)?
2. Line 632: Please check DOI of Miura et al. (2012).
3. Figure S8–S10: In the color scale, can you replace “T” by “Tair” as shown in Figure S11?