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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 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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Atmospheric Electricity Datasets

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Dataset Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Spatial Extent Data Format
Non-Quality Controlled Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Provisional Science Data ISS TROPICS N: 54 S: -54 E: 180 W: -180 HDF-4, netCDF-4
Non-Quality Controlled Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Science Data Version 1 ISS LIS TROPICS N: 55 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180 HDF-4, netCDF-4
Non-Quality Controlled Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Science Data Version 2 ISS TROPICS N: 55 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180 HDF-4, netCDF-4
North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) Raw Data V1 GROUND STATIONS LMA 2018-12-17 N: 36.7246 S: 32.7246 E: -84.6453 W: -88.6453 ASCII
North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) V1 GROUND STATIONS LMA 2001-11-01 ALABAMA N: 36.7246 S: 32.7246 E: -84.6453 W: -88.6453 ASCII
NRT Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Backgrounds Version 2 ISS TROPICS N: 54 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180 HDF-4, netCDF-4
NRT Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Provisional Backgrounds ISS TROPICS N: 54 S: -54 E: 180 W: -180 HDF-4, netCDF-4
NRT Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Provisional Science Data ISS TROPICS N: 54 S: -54 E: 180 W: -180 HDF-4, netCDF-4
NRT Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on International Space Station (ISS) Science Data Version 2 ISS TROPICS N: 55 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180 HDF-4, netCDF-4
OLS ANALOG DERIVED LIGHTNING V1 DMSP 5D-2/F10, DMSP 5D-2/F9, DMSP 5D-1/F1, DMSP 5D-2/F8, DMSP 5D-2/F7, DMSP 5B/F3 OLS 1973-06-01 to 1991-12-16 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 HDF4
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