TRMM-LBA LIGHTNING INSTRUMENT PACKAGE (LIP) V1

Description

The TRMM-LBA Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) dataset consists of electrical field measurements of lightning from eight field mills, conductivity probe temperatures from two probes, and navigation data, for the period of January 22 through February 24, 1999. These data were collected by the LIP instrument flown aboard the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft over the Amazon River basin in Brazil during the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (TRMM-LBA) field campaign. The LIP instrument was used to validate measurements by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS). These data are provided in HDF-4 format with browse imagery available in GIF format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Optical Observations of Lightning from a High-Altitude Airplane https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426%281987%29004%3C0701%3AOOOLFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2
21 Retrieving storm electric fields from aircraft field mill data. Part II: Applications https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH1918.1
21 Observed electric fields associated with lightning initiation https://doi.org/10.1029/2004GL021802
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FLIS%2FLIP%2FDATA101
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/trmlbalip/doc/trmlbalip_dataset.pdf
21 GHRC Lightning Webpage https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/lightning/
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=trmlbalip
16 Sample Browse Image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/trmlbalip/browse/TRMM_LBA_ER2_LIP_v1_1999.045_1800-1830.gif
21 NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-046-DFRC.html
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/trmlbalip/browse/

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  • atmospheric-electricity
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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