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    • GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Gridded Data Products V1

    Metadata Updated: April 11, 2025

    The GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Gridded Data Products consist of full disk extent gridded lightning flash data collected by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) onboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 and 17 (GOES-16 and GOES-17). These satellites are a part of the GOES-R series program: a four satellite series within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) GOES program. GLM is the first operational geostationary optical lightning detector that provides total lightning data (in-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground flashes). While it detects each of these types of lightning, the GLM is unable to distinguish between each type. The GLM GOES L3 dataset files contain gridded lightning flash data over the Western Hemisphere in netCDF-4 format from December 31, 2017 to present as this is an ongoing dataset.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2278812167-GHRC_DAAC
    Data First Published 2022-05-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-01
    Category NOT APPLICABLE, 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 e6a7a690-9439-4fde-a89f-0c1de23b51b1
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GLM/GRID/DATA101
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial 162.9 -57.0 -76.2 57.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 30c4a7904bbff66de2821a29184d3ca66c3002af76d6ecdb8110b412e5c7ccd6
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2017-12-18T00:00:00Z/2023-03-01T00:00:00Z

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