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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
    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 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/
    Harvest Object Id 2a74effc-c615-4fb7-b5b4-9bca2a178b6b
    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
    Old Spatial -179.75 -89.75 179.75 89.75
    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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