The Amazon rain forest is one of the most important and most fascinating of such ecosystems. In July and August 1985, NASA and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) conducted the first two GTE/ABLE expeditions to study atmospheric chemistry (and the transports that affects it) in the rain forests of Brazil. The first expeditions (GTE/ABLE2A) was conducted during the dry season. A second expedition (GTE/ABLE2B) was cponducted in April and May 1987, during the wet season.
The first scientfic reports from GTE/ABLE 2A are published in an special issue of Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 93, N. D2, February 20 1988.

Data archives

Format of data on the files:
207,199,1420,.1,-1.931,-1.364,-112.5,.024,.007,63.72,.155,.083,7.98,.006,-.236,.457,-.19
215,199,1440,.3,-1.25,-.137219,199,1440,.4,0,.055
211,199,1420,.3,.569,-1.247,-.992,.031,.017,.001,.177,.131,.033,.016,.002,.705,.369

Explanation:
There are two lines of 16 variables. The first is for data from 45 m tower level. Second is for data from 39 m tower level.
1: Datalogger code to tell that it is top (207) or bottom (211) level.
2: Julian day 1985
3: time of day hhmm
4: seconds
5: mean vertical velocity (m/sec) :NOTE that this is just instrument offset. Do not believe any means in this data set, only deviations. The means are useful for telling you when instrument was working.
6: temperature mean (K)
7: humidity mean (g/m^3)
8: vertical velocity variance.
9: temperature variance.
10: humidity variance (g/m^3)
11: covariance wT
12: covariance wq
13: correlation coefficient wT
14: correlation coefficient wq

There are two lines of intralevel correlations:
18: code for top (215) and bottom (219) levels
19: Julian day 1985
20: time of day hhmm
21: covariance Tq
22: correlation coefficient Tq

What it really looks like:
207,199,1440,.1,-2.133,-1.405,-49.7,.447,.024,3446,.669,.155,58.7,.021,-5.764, .203,-.147
211,199,1440,.2,.643,-1.187,-.999,.036,.015,.001,.19,.121,.038,.007,.002,.306, .285
215,199,1440,.3,-1.25,-.137219,199,1440,.4,0,.055
207,199,1500,.1,.632,-1.186,-1.005,9.63,.081,.002,3.102,.285,.044,-.554,-.009, -.627,-.068
211,199,1500,.3,.573,-1.145,-.996,.025,.007,.001,.159,.084,.036,.006,.002,.413, .288215,199,1500,.3,0,.066219,199,1500,.4,0,.282
207,199,1520,.1,1.088,-1.729,-.995,5.593,.082,0,2.365,.286,.031,.298,.006,.441, .086