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LIS/OTD Reprocessed Flash Climatology
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/lis/lisclimo/data101
This provides a new lightning climatology dataset that is compiled and released from a series of low Earth orbit NASA lightning sensors: the Optical Transient Detector (OTD), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), and International Space Station (ISS) LIS.
Description
OTD collected data during April 1995 – March 2000. TRMM LIS data were collected during December 1997 – April 2015.
Lastly, ISS LIS data were collected during March 2017 – November 2023. From these observations, gridded lightning datasets depict the near-global distribution of annual mean flash rate on a 0.1° grid. This new climatology features a new approach to compiling the gridded lightning datasets, taking advantage of the increased data volume after conclusion of the ISS LIS mission and new insights on the sensors’ detection efficiencies.
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The increased data volume makes so-called very high resolution (~0.1°) climatology products more robust than before, although for most purposes it is appropriate to composite over larger spatial scales. The very high resolution grid does provide users with more flexibility for defining the regions for such composites; for example, more precisely choosing the grid cells associated with a given landmass, body of water, or geographic territory.
With data collected from 27 different calendar years, the data are now arranged such that users can also customize climatology products using their own criteria for which years, months, or times of day to include.
Links
Get the data
- PDF ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/browseui ↗
The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-25-0110.1 ↗
Lightning Climatology Datasets from TRMM LIS, ISS LIS, and OTD
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3671144020-GHRC_DAAC.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3671144020-GHRC_DAAC ↗
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download · from NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/lis-otd-reprocessed-flash-climatology ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/lis/lisclimo/data101 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3671144020-GHRC_DAAC.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=80265c48-0129-451a-8d12-1362abc23… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3671144020-GHRC_DAAC.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- International Space Station · Lightning · Lightning · Lightning Imaging Sensor · Optical Transient Detector · OSC Microlab-1 Satellite · Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Energy · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Climate change science 71% · Imaging 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 24 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3671144020-GHRC_DAAC | 9 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 80265c48-0129-451a-8d12-1362abc23708 | 6 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3702 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (71%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:energy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:lis | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:otd | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-electricity/lightning | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/weather-events/lightning | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:iss | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:orbview-1 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:trmm | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |