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Reply to: On the role of atmospheric model transport uncertainty in estimating the Chinese land carbon sink

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Fig. 1: Monthly land CO2 fluxes for the whole of China during 2015–2018.

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The CO2 mole fraction data from the Chinese sites used in this study are available at https://doi.org/10.17632/w3bwmr6rfg.1 on http://data.mendeley.com.

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We acknowledge the Python Software Foundation: Python Language Reference, version 3.7.7; available at http://www.python.org. We also acknowledge Matplotlib (v3.1.3, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3984190). The community-led GEOS-Chem model of atmospheric chemistry and transport is maintained centrally by Harvard University (http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/geos/) and is available on request. The ensemble Kalman filter code is publicly available as PyOSSE (https://www.nceo.ac.uk/data-tools/atmospheric-tools/).

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We thank the OCO-2 Model Intercomparison Project for sharing their individual model data to help us to prepare this response.

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P.I.P. and L.F. prepared this response. P.I.P. led the writing of the paper, with contributions from L.F., Y.L., S.F., H.B., C.W.O., X.T., D.Y., L.L. and C.X.

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Correspondence to Paul I. Palmer, Yi Liu or Shuangxi Fang.

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Wang, J., Feng, L., Palmer, P.I. et al. Reply to: On the role of atmospheric model transport uncertainty in estimating the Chinese land carbon sink. Nature 603, E15–E16 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04259-8

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