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    • Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on TRMM Science Data V4

    Metadata Updated: January 15, 2026

    The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) Science Data 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, with corresponding browse images in GIF format.

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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 April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2026
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/LIS/LIS/DATA201
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-13
    Category Earth Science
    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 85e89bd9-f577-4c14-86ce-acf0779ed42a
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=lislip
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":40,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-40}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 999d2f338ff90b8c44703bdef804c4bf09aec8e9ff57156f3c3a4bbe221f75a7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1998-01-01/1998-01-01

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