The role of ecosystem memory in predicting inter-annual variations of the tropical carbon balance.

A. Anthony Bloom1, Junjie Liu2, Kevin W Bowman3, Alexandra G Konings4, Sassan Saatchi3, John R Worden5, Helen Marie Worden6, Zhe Jiang7, Nicholas Parazoo8, Mathew Williams9 and David Schimel2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (9)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom