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NAMMA ATD LIGHTNING DATA V1

Metadata Updated: September 19, 2025

The NAMMA ATD Lightning data provided by the UK Meterological Office from multiple outstations contains lightning stroke data, latitude and longitude, accuracy and weighting for fading-in flashes of lightning for the African Coast during the NAMMA experiment. Time is determined by the Arrival Time Difference (ATD) of the reporting stations. These data files were generated during support of the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) campaign, a field research investigation sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This mission was based in the Cape Verde Islands, 350 miles off the coast of Senegal in west Africa. Commencing in August 2006, NASA scientists employed surface observation networks and aircraft to characterize the evolution and structure of African Easterly Waves (AEWs) and Mesoscale Convective Systems over continental western Africa, and their associated impacts on regional water and energy budgets.

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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 September 19, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025
Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.5067/NAMMA/RFDETECTOR/DATA202
Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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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 7676c37a-4adf-4775-9d8b-97dd6b80e9e9
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=namukatd
Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-75,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":35,"EastBoundingCoordinate":30,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-5}
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 442629bfd679fec013f370c36e15fb23b69c63713202f2fc81544ec334229646
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2006-08-14/2006-08-14

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