Description
The Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) was an 11-station, ground-based network located in north-central Argentina from November 2018 to April 2019 in support of the RELAMPAGO field campaign. The RELAMPAGO campaign aimed to characterize the atmospheric conditions and terrain effects that facilitate the initiation and growth of intense weather systems in this region of South America. The LMA maps Very High Frequency (VHF) emissions from lightning in three dimensions. These emissions have also been grouped, temporally and spatially, into individual flashes, and the flash characteristics analyzed to produce gridded products. The dataset was produced by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), via an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in order to serve as a validation dataset for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). These LMA data are available from November 8, 2018 through April 20, 2019 in ASCII, HDF5, and netCDF-4 format.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | RELAMPAGO: Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations Landing Page | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | Climatological analyses of LMA data with an open-source lightning flash-clustering algorithm | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | Lightning Mapping Array flash detection performance with variable receiver thresholds | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | Correlated lightning mapping array and radar observations of the initial stages of three sequentially triggered Florida lightning discharges | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | Accuracy of the Lightning Mapping Array | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | A Hyperbolic System for Obtaining VHF Radio Pictures of Lightning | Open resource |
| View this dataset's publications | HTML | VHF radio pictures of cloud flashes | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | Instructions for citing GHRC data | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset | Open resource | |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | LMA Case Notes | Open resource | |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | The RELAMPAGO Lightning Mapping Array: Deployment, quality control, and data products | Open resource | |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | RELAMPAGO LMA Level 1 File Documentation | Open resource | |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | RELAMPAGO LMA Level 2 File Documentation | Open resource | |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | RELAMPAGO LMA Level 3 File Documentation | Open resource | |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | Log of Actions to LMA Network, and Other Data Notes | Open resource | |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| View information related to this dataset | HTML | RELAMPAGO-CACTI | Open resource |