Peer review report 2 On “Quantifying biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 using eddy covariance, wavelet denoising, neural networks, and multiple regression models”

Peer review report 2 On “Quantifying biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 using eddy covariance, wavelet denoising, neural networks, and multiple regression models”

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Peer review report 2 On “Quantifying biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 using eddy covariance, wavelet denoising, neural networks, and multiple regression models”

Original Submission Recommendation: Minor Revision 1. Comments to Author: I have carefully reviewed this manuscript and find that it is a well-executed study. The intent of finding quantitative measurements to better understand a dynamically-changing environment is well laid out and justified equally well. I, therefore, recommend it for publication.

I do have one suggestion. Several sentences in the manuscript, in my opinion, are long. To improve readability, the author should consider shorter sentences. As an example: Lines 3-8: Long-term estimates of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) and their partitioning into both flux and temporal components are essential to a better quantification and understanding of spatio-temporal dynamics of carbon (C) sources and sinks under human-induced disturbances. Such quantitative estimates are better suited as preventive and mitigative measures in a changing global environment and climate (Wali et al., 1999; Baldocchi, 2008; Evrendilek et al., 2011). Anonymous Available online 6 August 2015

DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.11.002. 0168-1923/$ – see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.07.146