Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) V1

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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.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/relampago/lma/data/
21 RELAMPAGO-CACTI https://sites.google.com/illinois.edu/relampago/home?authuser=0
21 Lightning Mapping Array flash detection performance with variable receiver thresholds https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025159
21 Climatological analyses of LMA data with an open-source lightning flash-clustering algorithm https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD024663
21 Correlated lightning mapping array and radar observations of the initial stages of three sequentially triggered Florida lightning discharges https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50660
21 VHF radio pictures of cloud flashes https://doi.org/10.1029/JC086iC05p04041
21 RELAMPAGO: Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations Landing Page https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/RELAMPAGO
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%2FRELAMPAGO%2FLMA%2FDATA101
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/relampago/lma/doc/relampagolma_dataset.pdf
33 RELAMPAGO LMA Level 1 File Documentation https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/relampago/lma/doc/RELAMP_LMA_level1_FileDocumentation_v191031.pdf
33 LMA Case Notes https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/relampago/lma/doc/RELAMP_LMA_CaseNotes.pdf
21 A Hyperbolic System for Obtaining VHF Radio Pictures of Lightning https://doi.org/10.1029/JC076i006p01478
33 RELAMPAGO LMA Level 3 File Documentation https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/relampago/lma/doc/RELAMP_LMA_level3_FileDocumentation_v191031.pdf
33 Log of Actions to LMA Network, and Other Data Notes https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/relampago/lma/doc/RELAMP_LMA_log_of_network_actions.pdf
33 The RELAMPAGO Lightning Mapping Array: Deployment, quality control, and data products https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/relampago/lma/doc/RELAMP_LMA_DataPresentation.pdf
33 RELAMPAGO LMA Level 2 File Documentation https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/relampago/lma/doc/RELAMP_LMA_level2_FileDocumentation_v191031.pdf
21 Accuracy of the Lightning Mapping Array https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JD004549

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  • atmospheric-electricity
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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