Monthly Flash Density Rate from NASA LISOTD 2p5: Satellite monthly and daily flash density rate data from OTD and TRMM-LIS at 2.5 deg.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time
- grid: /T (months since 1995-01-01 12:00:00) ordered (Jan 1996) to (Dec 2013) by 1.0 N= 216 pts :grid
- Longitud
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (178.75W) to (178.75E) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
- Latitud
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (88.75S) to (88.75N) by 2.5 N= 72 pts :grid
Other Info
- CE
- null
- CS
- null
- datatype
- realarraytype
- file_missing_value
- 0.0
- hdf_name
- LRMTS_COM_FR
- missing_value
- NaN
- units
- Flashes /km2 /day
- valid_range
- [ 0.0 0.2740847 ]
- history
- NASA LISOTD 2p5 Monthly
- Averaged in T with overlapping interval 2.0
Boxes with less than 0.0% dropped
References
Cecil, S, D. Buechler and R. Blakeslee, 2014: Gridded lightning climatology from TRMM-LIS and OTD: dataset description. Atm. Res., 135-136, 404-414
Albrecht, Rachel I, Steve Goodman, Dennis Buechler, Richard Blakeslee and Hugh Christian. 2016. LIS 0.1 Degree Very High Resolution Gridded Lightning Monthly Climatology (VHRMC). 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/DATA302
Last updated: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 01:36:02 GMT