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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.

Product Summary

Platforms
NASA ER-2
Instruments
LIP
Spatial Extent
N: -9 S: -16.0234 E: -47 W: -63.4124
Geographic Region
BRAZIL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1999-01-22 to 1999-02-24
Data Partner
Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/MSFC/GHRC)
Concept ID
c1979956303-ghrc_daac
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
1B
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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Blakeslee, R. (2025). TRMM-LBA LIGHTNING INSTRUMENT PACKAGE (LIP) [Data set]. NASA Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIP/DATA101 Date Accessed: 2025-07-01

Documents

Title Not Provided GHRC Lightning Webpage
Title Not Provided NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft
PUBLICATIONS Optical Observations of Lightning from a High-Altitude Airplane
PUBLICATIONS Retrieving storm electric fields from aircraft field mill data. Part II: Applications
PUBLICATIONS General matrix inversion technique for the calibration of electric field sensor arrays on aircraft platforms

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