Reply to: Little evidence that Amazonian rainforests are approaching a tipping point

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3 averaged over the Amazon basin and the AR(1) signals obtained from it (as in Fig. 2c of Boulton et al.) alongside the AR(1) signals obtained from the radar data of Tao et al.

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Data measuring VOD from AMSR-E in the X- and C-bands can be found here: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/LPRM_AMSRE_D_SOILM3_002/summary.
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Boulton, C.A., Lenton, T.M. & Boers, N. Reply to: Little evidence that Amazonian rainforests are approaching a tipping point. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01854-7
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