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    • World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Monthly Thunder Hour Data

    Metadata Updated: August 29, 2025

    The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) has monitored global lightning since late 2004. Since 2013, the number of global WWLLN sensors has remained largely consistent. This WWLLN Monthly Thunder Hour dataset is calculated from lightning detections from 1 January 2013 onward and is an ongoing dataset. A thunder hour is an hour during which thunder can be heard at a given location. Thunder hours represent a historical measure of lightning occurrence and a metric of thunderstorm frequency that is comparatively less sensitive to geographic variations in the detection capabilities of a lightning location system. Thunder hours are the number of hours in a given month during which at least two WWLLN strokes were observed within 15 km of each grid point. Each file includes the monthly accumulated thunder hours for one year. The data are provided at 0.05° latitude and longitude resolution.

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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 August 29, 2025

    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 August 29, 2025
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/WWLLN/DATA101
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-28
    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 df8936d5-ecf1-41eb-aa9a-bc1e2a2ca706
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00213.1
    Old Spatial {"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90,"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4c0d024c2849049488aec5f7d9bc5ca5abd1800f596da65006922123d423e0a6
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2013-01-01/2013-01-01

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