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The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) Airborne Fluxes and Meteorology (AFM)-3 team used the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Electra aircraft to make sounding measurements to study the planetary boundary layer using in situ and remote-sensing measurements. Measurements were made of wind speed and direction, air pressure and temperature, potential temperature, dewpoint, mixing ratio of H, O, CO, concentration, and ozone concentration. Twenty-five research missions were flown over the Northern Study Area (NSA), Southern Study Area (SSA), and the transect during BOREAS Intensive Field Campaigns (IFCs) 1, 2, and 3 during 1994. All missions had from four to ten soundings through the top of the planetary boundary layer. This sounding data set contains all of the in situ vertical profiles through the boundary layer top that were made (with the exception of 'porpoise' maneuvers). Data were recorded in one-second time intervals. These data are stored in tabular ASCII files. The NCAR Electra 1994 aircraft sounding data are available from the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884).Lenschow, Donald H. and Oncley, Steven P. and Hall, Forrest G. (Editor) and Knapp, David E. (Editor) and Smith, David E. (Technical Monitor)Goddard Space Flight CenterPLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER; FORESTS; AIR LAND INTERACTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRA AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DEW POINT; GAS COMPOSITION; GAS PRESSURE; MIXING RATIOS; OZONE; REMOTE SENSING; WIND VELOCITY