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

A Anthony Bloom1, Junjie Liu1, Kevin W Bowman2, Alexandra G Konings3, Sassan Saatchi2, John R Worden4, Helen Marie Worden5, Zhe Jiang6, Nicholas Parazoo7, Mathew Williams8 and David Schimel1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom