Description
The LIS/OTD 2.5 Degree Low Resolution Annual Climatology (LRAC) contains a variety of gridded climatologies of total lightning flash rates obtained from two lightning detection sensors - the spaceborne Optical Transient Detector (OTD) on Orbview-1 and the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The long LIS (equatorward of about 38 degree) record makes the merged climatology most robust in the tropics and subtropics, while the high latitude data is entirely from OTD. The LRAC dataset include annual flash rate climatology data including raw and scaled flashes on a 2.5 degree grid in HDF and netCDF-4 format.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| View the documentation for this dataset's algorithms | HTML | Gridded lightning climatology from TRMM-LIS and OTD: Dataset description | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space by the Optical Transient Detector | Open resource |
| View information related to this dataset | HTML | Digital Object Identifier for a collection of related datasets | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | Instructions for citing GHRC data | Open resource |
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) Overview | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | JPG | Browse Sample | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | HTML | Read SDS Arrays From an A HDF file | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | LIS/OTD Climatology Dataset Collection User Guide | Open resource | |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | Doc | Products in LIS-OTD gridded climatology files | Open resource |
| Downloadable software applications | HTML | Read an SDS grid from the LIS/OTD HDF climatology files | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | HTML | N/A | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | The 13 years of TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor: From individual flash characteristics to decadal tendencies | Open resource | |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link | Open resource |