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X. Al-yaari, J. Li, F. Swenson, and C. Frappart, Moisy in the data analysis. Funding: This work was jointly supported by the TOSCA (Terre Océan Surfaces Continentales et Atmosphère) CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) program, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Research Council Synergy grant ERC-2013-SyG-610028 IMBALANCE-P. P.C. acknowledges additional support from the ANR ICONV CLAND grant. M.B. was funded by an AXA postdoctoral fellowship. L.F. acknowledges additional support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Acknowledgments: We acknowledge the support from all the SMOS-IC team in Bordeaux and

J. , has benefited from "Investissement d'Avenir" grants managed by Agence Nationale de la Recherche

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R. W. , L. F. , P. , C. B. , R. F. et al., with support from all coauthors. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Data and materials availability: SMOS-IC L-VOD data are available from the corresponding author upon request. The Saatchi, Baccini, Bouvet, and Mermoz biomass maps are available from S. Saatchi, A. Baccini, A. Bouvet, and S. Mermoz, respectively, upon request. The JAMSTEC data were obtained upon request from P. Patra (JAMSTEC, Japan). The Jena CarboScope data were obtained upon request from C. Rödenbeck, acknowledges funding from the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF, 2019.

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