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

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    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 December 7, 2023

    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 December 7, 2023
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2278812167-GHRC_DAAC
    Data First Published 2022-05-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2022-05-26
    Category NOT APPLICABLE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Rudlosky, Scott .2022. GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Gridded Data Products indicate subset used. Dataset available online from the NASA Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GLM/GRID/DATA101
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    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GLM/GRID/DATA101
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
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    Source Hash de7f3842ccf4f89cf0c035e1d562df26e80e8ad8cb42c019245dab4488bc5d5e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2017-12-18T00:00:00Z/2023-03-01T00:00:00Z

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