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    • Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) IMPACTS V2

    Metadata Updated: January 22, 2026

    The Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) IMPACTS dataset consists of electrical field measurements of lightning and navigation data collected by the Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) flown onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field campaign. IMPACTS was a three-year sequence of winter season deployments conducted to study snowstorms over the U.S. Atlantic coast (2020-2023). IMPACTS aimed to (1) Provide observations critical to understanding the mechanisms of snowband formation, organization, and evolution; (2) Examine how the microphysical characteristics and likely growth mechanisms of snow particles vary across snowbands; and (3) Improve snowfall remote sensing interpretation and modeling to advance prediction capabilities significantly. The V2 LIP IMPACTS data have been further filtered to remove field mill offsets that were identified in the prior V1 data. These data are available from January 15, 2020, through March 2, 2023, in ASCII format.

    Access & Use Information

    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 22, 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 22, 2026
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/IMPACTS/LIP/DATA101
    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 5325b3d2-4f9a-4bfc-9690-3e2dcbddb335
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/portal/ghrc/search?q=lipimpacts
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-123.62,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":48.66,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-64.89,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":26.91}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7d343343bb9dea8c0bb550408a998859d89cacb9e1448bcbab10818fd70fa8f2
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2020-01-15/2020-01-15

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