The NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC published the Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) instrument micro article. Comprised of 5-8 electric field mills deployed on an aircraft, LIP observes the three-dimensional components of the electric field. LIP does this by observing the changes in the environmental electric field. LIP is capable of measuring this in a wide range of conditions, ranging from fair weather to thunderstorms. These observations are used in a variety of research areas including lightning production and activity as well as storm intensification. LIP is similar to ground-based field mills, but with the obvious advantage of being able to target specific storms. LIP has been widely used in several tropical cyclone field campaigns. This micro article provides an overview of LIP and its applications to support current and future GHRC publications of LIP. The micro article is available at: https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/instrument-lightning-instrument-package-lip
