LIS/OTD Gridded Lightning Climatology Data Collection
Version 2.3.2015

The LIS/OTD Gridded Lightning Climatology Data Collection is comprised of the ten LIS/OTD Gridded Lightning Climatology Datasets listed below with their individual DOIs. These ten data sets offer full, annual, monthly and diurnal climatologies, and time series of lightning observed from space from May 1995 through December 2014, including both Optical Transient Detector and TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor, at 0.5 and 2.5 degree resolutions. Both the LIS and the OTD instruments were developed by NASA Marshall Flight Center (MSFC). Information about each dataset in this collection including its citation is provided on the landing page at the appropriate DOI link below.

To cite the entire collection, please use the following:

Cecil, D.J. 2015. LIS/OTD Gridded Lightning Climatology Data Collection.
Data set available online [https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/lis/climatology/] from the NASA EOSDIS Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. doi: http:/dx.doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS-OTD/DATA311

For more information on GHRC DAAC citations, see these Instructions for citing GHRC data.

General Characteristics

Collections:	Lightning Products, Lightning from Satellites
Projects:	TRMM, LIS
Platforms:	MICROLAB-1, TRMM
Instruments:	LIS, OTD
Parameters:	LIGHTNING
Processing level:	3
Format:	HDF-4; netCDF-4/CF

Coverage

Red dots or areas indicate coverage range.