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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2024-492</article-id>
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<article-title>Long-term meteorological and carbon, water and energy flux data from the Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites, Saskatchewan, Canada</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Barr</surname>
<given-names>Alan</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Black</surname>
<given-names>T. Andrew</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7494-9767</ext-link>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Helgason</surname>
<given-names>Warren</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7068-5717</ext-link>
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<sup>4</sup>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ireson</surname>
<given-names>Andrew</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1957-7355</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Johnson</surname>
<given-names>Bruce</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9013-5774</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>McCaughey</surname>
<given-names>J. Harry</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>6</sup>
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<sup>8</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nesic</surname>
<given-names>Zoran</given-names>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hrynkiw</surname>
<given-names>Charmaine</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ross</surname>
<given-names>Amber</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hedstrom</surname>
<given-names>Newell</given-names>
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<sup>7</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 3H5, Canada</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5C8, Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5A9, Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5C8, Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University, Kingston, K7L 3N6, Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, S7N3H5, Canada</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>deceased</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>26</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>2025</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>54</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Alan Barr et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<p>The Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites (BERMS) are a network of flux tower research sites located near the southern boundary of the Boreal Plains Ecozone in Saskatchewan, Canada. This network includes four principal sites that characterize the region&amp;rsquo;s dominant vegetation types: mature trembling aspen (Old Aspen, OA, 1997&amp;ndash;2017), mature black spruce (Old Black Spruce, OBS, 1997&amp;ndash;present), mature jack pine (Old Jack Pine, OJP, 1997&amp;ndash;present), and a minerotrophic patterned fen (Fen, 2002&amp;ndash;present). The dataset reported here include continuous long-term records of site meteorological variables (air temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, precipitation, wind speed and direction), vertical profiles of soil temperature and volumetric water content, surface energy balance components (soil and biomass heat fluxes, photosynthetic heat flux, and eddy covariance-derived latent and sensible heat fluxes), and carbon fluxes (net ecosystem production, gross primary productivity, and ecosystem respiration). The strengths of the data set are its length and completeness, spanning up to 27 years; the care given to the measurement of net radiation and the minor surface energy balance terms; the care given to the measurement of precipitation and other hydrologic variables; and the proximity of the sites, which enables inter-site comparisons of the responses of the carbon and water balances to climatic controls. The data are available at &lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.20383/103.01318&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://doi.org/10.20383/103.01318&lt;/a&gt; (Helgason et al., 2024).</p>
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