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The LIS 0.1 Degree Very High Resolution Gridded Lightning Diurnal Climatology (VHRDC) dataset consists of gridded diurnal climatologies of total lightning flash rates seen by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) from January 1, 1998 through December 31, 2013. LIS is an instrument on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission satellite (TRMM) used to detect the distribution and variability of total lightning occurring in the Earth's tropical and subtropical regions. This information can be used for severe storm detection and analysis, and also for lightning-atmosphere interaction studies. The gridded climatologies include annual mean flash rate, mean diurnal cycle of flash rate with 24 hour resolution, and mean annual cycle of flash rate with daily, monthly, or seasonal resolution. All datasets are in 0.1 degree spatial resolution. The mean annual cycle of flash rate datasets (i.e., daily, monthly or seasonal) have both 49-day and 1 degree boxcar moving averages to remove diurnal cycle and smooth regions with low flash rate, making the results more robust.

Product Summary

Platforms
TRMM
Instruments
LIS
Spatial Extent

N: 38 S: -38 E: 180 W: -180

Location
TROPICS
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1998-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Data Partner
Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/MSFC/GHRC)
Concept ID
C1979883116-GHRC_DAAC
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Lightning ,
Lightning

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Rachael Albrect, S. G. (2025). LIS 0.1 DEGREE VERY HIGH RESOLUTION GRIDDED LIGHTNING DIURNAL CLIMATOLOGY (VHRDC) [Data set]. NASA Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS/DATA303 Date Accessed: 2026-05-14

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Temporal and Spatial Distributions of Lightning Activities along Xie, Yiran, Zhou, Minggang, Liu, Xuetao, Sun, Jihua Lightning, Lightning
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Diurnal cycles of precipitation and lightning in the tropics observed by TRMM3G68, GSMaP, LIS, and WWLLN Minobe, Shoshiro, Park, Jun Hyock, Virts, Katrina S. Lightning, Lightning
The 3rd AGILE Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flash Catalog. Part I: Association Lindanger, A., Marisaldi, M., Maiorana, C., Sarria, D., Albrechtsen, K., stgaard, N., Galli, M., Ursi, A., Labanti, C., Tavani, M., Pittori, C., Verrecchia, F. Lightning, Lightning
The 3rd AGILE Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Catalog. Part II: Optimized Maiorana, C., Marisaldi, M., Lindanger, A., stgaard, N., Ursi, A., Sarria, D., Galli, M., Labanti, C., Tavani, M., Pittori, C., Verrecchia, F. Lightning, Lightning
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