The ASCII format of the P3 flight data were extracted from the NetCDF files provided by the JOSS's Office. Only 23 variables were extracted. The error flags of every variable are not included in this format. The first number in the file is the number of raws or seconds during the flight Column, Var name, Units, Extended name 1 YEAR common_year 2 MONTH month UTC Raw Tape Date Component 3 DAY day UTC Raw Tape Date Component 4 HOUR hours UTC Raw Tape Time Component 5 MINUTE minutes UTC Raw Tape Date Component 6 SECOND s UTC Raw Tape Date Component 7 LAT degrees_north LATITUDE Xla1+Xla2/60 8 LON degrees_east LONGITUDE Xlo1+Xlo2/60 9 Ralt meters RADAR ALTITUDE 10 PS mbar PRESSURE 11 WX m/s E/W WIND SPEED 12 WY m/s N/S WIND SPEED 13 WZ m/s VERTICAL WIND SPEED 14 WD degrees WIND DIRECTION 15 WS m/s WIND SPEED 16 TA degC AMBIENT TEMPERATURE 17 TV degK VIRTUAL TEMPERATURE 18 PT degK POTENTIAL TEMP 19 ET degK EQUIVALENT POT.TEMP. 20 GA m GEOPOTENTIAL ALT. (METER) 21 RH % RELATIVE HUMIDITY 22 MR gram/kg MIXING RATIO 23 TD degC DEWPOINT TEMPERATURE Example 23810 2003 2 8 11 14 11 -17.65 -63.13 1 969.7 1.8 6.6 0.0 195.0 6.8 22.08 297.8 297.8 339.3 1 81 14.24 18.8 2003 2 8 11 14 12 -17.65 -63.13 1 969.8 1.5 6.9 0.0 192.6 7.1 22.08 297.8 297.8 339.3 1 81 14.25 18.8 2003 2 8 11 14 13 -17.65 -63.13 1 969.7 1.3 7.0 -0.1 190.9 7.1 22.08 297.8 297.8 339.4 1 81 14.25 18.8 2003 2 8 11 14 14 -17.65 -63.13 1 969.8 1.2 7.0 -0.1 189.9 7.1 22.08 297.8 297.8 339.3 1 81 14.24 18.8 . . . . **********23810 is the number of seconds or raws in the file. There are 23 columns********