NAMMA ATD LIGHTNING DATA V1

Description

The NAMMA ATD Lightning data provided by the UK Meterological Office from multiple outstations contains lightning stroke data, latitude and longitude, accuracy and weighting for fading-in flashes of lightning for the African Coast during the NAMMA experiment. Time is determined by the Arrival Time Difference (ATD) of the reporting stations. These data files were generated during support of the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) campaign, a field research investigation sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This mission was based in the Cape Verde Islands, 350 miles off the coast of Senegal in west Africa. Commencing in August 2006, NASA scientists employed surface observation networks and aircraft to characterize the evolution and structure of African Easterly Waves (AEWs) and Mesoscale Convective Systems over continental western Africa, and their associated impacts on regional water and energy budgets.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/namma/namukatd/namukatd_dataset.html
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/namma
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FNAMMA%2FRFDETECTOR%2FDATA202
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=namukatd
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data

Tags

  • atmospheric-electricity
  • atmosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • platform-characteristics
  • earth-science

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