OLS DIGITAL DERIVED LIGHTNING FROM DMSP F12 V1

Description

The OLS Digital Derived Lightning from DMSP F12 dataset consists of global lightning signatures from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) flown on DMSP 5D-2/F12 that have been analyzed from the visible channel imagery. These signatures show up as horizontal streaks on the images. The time and location of each of these streaks have been extracted and are stored by month in HDF data files. Data are available from May 1, 1995 through November 30, 1995.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/ols/ols-f12/browse/ols_1995_00_world.gif
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/ols/ols-f12/doc/ols_dataset.html
21 HDF command-line utility for reading the vgroup information https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/ols/ols-f12/doc/extractols.c
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/ols/ols-f12/browse/
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=olsdig12
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FLIS%2FOLS%2FDATA303

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  • atmospheric-electricity
  • atmosphere
  • weather-events
  • earth-science

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