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Description

The LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Full Climatology (HRFC) contains a variety of gridded climatologies of total lightning flash rates obtained from two lightning detection sensors - the spaceborne Optical Transient Detector (OTD) on Orbview-1 and the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite.The long LIS (equatorward of about 38 degree) record makes the merged climatology most robust in the tropics and subtropics, while the high latitude data is entirely from OTD. The HRFC dataset include flash rate climatology data including raw and scaled flash on a 0.5 degree grid in HDF and netCDF-4 format.

Product Summary

Platforms
OrbView-1,
TRMM
Instruments
LIS,
OTD
Spatial Extent
N: 89.75 S: -89.75 E: 179.75 W: -179.75
Geographic Region
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1995-05-04 to 2014-12-31
Data Partner
Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/MSFC/GHRC)
Concept ID
c1995863244-ghrc_daac
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated

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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Cecil, D. (2025). LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Full Climatology (HRFC) [Data set]. NASA Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS-OTD/DATA302 Date Accessed: 2025-06-30

Documents

Title Not Provided Digital Object Identifier for a collection of related datasets
ALGORITHM DOCUMENTATION Gridded lightning climatology from TRMM-LIS and OTD: Dataset description
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION The 13 years of TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor: From individual flash characteristics to decadal tendencies
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space by the Optical Transient Detector
PI DOCUMENTATION Products in LIS-OTD gridded climatology files

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