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Gridded OTD+LIS combined product - 2.5 deg. annual flash rate climatology
Combined OTD (Optical Transient Detector) + LIS (Lightning Imaging Sensor) total (interclouds+cloud to ground) flash production gridded to 2.5x2.5 lat/lon. is given as a daily climatology. The time span is 5 yrs of the satellite mission (OTD 4/95-3/00, LIS 1/98-12/02). The climatology is determined as the total number of flashes at a given location over the total viewing time of the sensor. In addition, the resulting flash production is weighted by the instrument detection efficiency.
If the data are used please cite :
""The v1.0 gridded satellite lightning data were produced by the NASA LIS/OTD Science Team (Principal Investigator, Dr. Hugh J. Christian, NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center) and are available from the Global Hydrology Resource Center (http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov).""
| Variables | combined flash rate climatology (flashes/km^2/day), combined time series sampling (km^2 day), otd flash rate time series (flashes/km^2/day), otd time series sampling (km^2 day), lis flash rate time series (flashes/km^2/day), lis time series sampling (km^2 day)
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| Zonal | Global by 2.5 deg |
| Meridional | Global by 2.5 deg |
| Vertical | NA to NA, by varies |
| Temporal | Jan Climatology to Jan Climatology by 1 day |
| Static? | yes |
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| Server | DODS & LAS; public |
| Source | http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/uso/readme/lolrac.html |
| Acquired | Jan 1, 2005 |
| APDRC contact | Yongsheng Zhang |
| Supplements | cipacs-lightning-LISOTD_LRAC-readme.pdf |
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