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    LIS 0.1 DEGREE VERY HIGH RESOLUTION GRIDDED LIGHTNING FULL CLIMATOLOGY (VHRFC) V1

    Metadata Updated: February 23, 2025

    The LIS 0.1 Degree Very High Resolution Gridded Lightning Full Climatology (VHRFC) dataset consists of gridded full 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.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1979883245-GHRC_DAAC
    Data First Published 2016-03-02
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category LIS, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id ec0657a2-c355-497c-a6e4-ba53f55a8911
    Harvest Source Id a73e0c30-4684-40ef-908e-d22e9e9e5f86
    Harvest Source Title nasa test json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS/DATA301
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -38.0 180.0 38.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9276cff6fd30ba4bbb944c5f5279c4001b7949849901a4d2dd64815c2afebb76
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z/2013-12-31T23:59:59Z

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