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    • Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on TRMM Backgrounds V4

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) Backgrounds was collected by the LIS instrument on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite used to detect the distribution and variability of total lightning occurring in the Earth’s tropical and subtropical regions. This data can be used for severe storm detection and analysis, as well as for lightning-atmosphere interaction studies. The LIS instrument makes measurements during both day and night with high detection efficiency. These data are available in both HDF-4 and netCDF-4 formats.

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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 6, 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 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1995583255-GHRC_DAAC
    Data First Published 2010-03-16
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2022-04-28
    Category TRMM, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Blakeslee, Richard J..2010. Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on TRMM Backgrounds 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/LIS/LIS/DATA101
    Harvest Object Id e7815c7c-a948-47fc-942d-ed55df948744
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS/DATA101
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -40.0 180.0 40.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c01f11b8be191a950fbda7fd9b49cd3a9f419b07814dd428ba16df3f6d3c9756
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1998-01-01T00:45:12Z/2015-04-08T14:09:43Z

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