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Atmospheric Electricity Data Access and Tools

NASA collects data on a wide range of lightning data from location-specific lightning detection counts to field campaign data useful for instrument validation. Our datasets and tools help users find and integrate the data they need to determine how electricity flows through Earth’s atmosphere and predict where lightning may strike.

Atmospheric Electricity Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
LIS/OTD Reprocessed Flash Climatology 2 TRMM, OrbView-1, ISS LIS, OTD 1995-04-13 to 2023-11-16

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

HDF4
Non-Quality Controlled Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Science Data Version 2 2 ISS 4-8 km HDF-4, netCDF-4
Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) IMPACTS V2 2 NASA ER-2 LIP 2020-01-15 to 2023-03-02

N: 48.66 S: 26.91 E: -64.89 W: -123.62

ASCII
NRT Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Backgrounds Version 2 2 ISS 4-8 km HDF-4, netCDF-4
NRT Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Science Data Version 2 2 ISS 4-8 km HDF-4, netCDF-4
Quality Controlled Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Backgrounds V2 2 ISS LIS 2017-03-01 to 2023-11-16

N: 55 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180

HDF4 - netCDF-4
Quality Controlled Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Science Data V2 2 ISS LIS 2017-03-01 to 2023-11-16

N: 55 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4 - HDF4
TCSP ER-2 LIGHTNING INSTRUMENT PACKAGE (LIP) V1 1 NASA ER-2 LIP 2005-07-02 to 2005-07-27

N: 24.7845 S: 4.68322 E: -53.0668 W: -99.7368

ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) IPHEx V1 1 NASA ER-2 LIP 2014-05-01 to 2014-06-14

N: 36.6427 S: 26.7991 E: -71.6108 W: -121.853

ASCII
SEAC4RS Analysis and Ancillary Data 1 GOES-17, GOES-16 CCD IMAGER, GOES-16 Imager 2013-07-30 to 2013-09-24 NetCDF-3
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Atmospheric Electricity Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
GUARDIAN The GNSS-based Upper Atmospheric Realtime Disaster Information and Alert Network (GUARDIAN) is a near real-time (NRT) ionospheric monitoring tool for natural hazards warning. Monitoring Natural Events
LIS Space Time Domain Search The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) Space Time Domain Search allows users to quickly perform a space time domain search of LIS science products. Search and Discovery
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