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LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Annual Climatology (HRAC) V2.3.2015

Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

The LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Annual Climatology (HRAC) contains a variety of gridded climatologies of total lightning flash rates obtained from two lightning detection sensors - the spaceborne Optical Transient Detector (OTD) on Orbview-1 and the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The long LIS (equatorward of about 38 degree) record makes the merged climatology most robust in the tropics and subtropics, while the high latitude data is entirely from OTD. The HRAC dataset includes annual flash rate climatology data on a 0.5 degree grid in HDF and netCDF-4 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 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 C1995863067-GHRC_DAAC
Data First Published 2006-09-13
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2022-04-28
Category LIS, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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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 Cecil, Daniel J.2006. LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Annual Climatology (HRAC) 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-OTD/DATA301
Graphic Preview Description N/A
Graphic Preview File https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/lis/climatology/LIS-OTD/HRAC/animations/
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS-OTD/DATA301
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash a41b770df7290161752d25d051c8888994142ce32a89c1006bcda36e2d2633b2
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1995-05-04T00:00:00Z/2014-12-31T23:59:59Z

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