LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Full Climatology (HRFC) V2.3.2015

The LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Full Climatology (HRFC) 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 HRFC dataset include flash rate climatology data including raw and scaled flash on a 0.5 degree grid in HDF and netCDF-4 format.

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citation Cecil, Daniel J.2001. LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Full Climatology (HRFC) [indicate subset used]. Dataset available online from the NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS-OTD/DATA302
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notes The LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Full Climatology (HRFC) 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 HRFC dataset include flash rate climatology data including raw and scaled flash on a 0.5 degree grid in HDF and netCDF-4 format.
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title LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Full Climatology (HRFC) V2.3.2015