LIS/OTD 2.5 Degree Low Resolution Full Climatology (LRFC)

Gridded OTD+LIS combined product - 2.5 deg. total 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 total annual 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/year), otd raw flashes (unit flashes), otd scaled flashes (de-scaled flashes), otd viewtime (km^2 s), otd flash rate climatology (flashes/km^2/year), lis raw flashes (flashes), lis scaled flashes, (de-scaled flashes), lis viewtime (km^2 s), lis flash rate climatology (flashes/km^2/year), grid cell area (km^2)
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 year
Static?	yes
Volume
Server	DODS & LAS; public
Source	http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/uso/readme/lolrfc.html
Acquired	Jan 1, 2005
APDRC contact	Yongsheng Zhang
Supplements	cipacs-lightning-LISOTD_LRFC-readme.pdf