Datasets / VAISALA US NLDN LIGHTNING FLASH DATA V2


VAISALA US NLDN LIGHTNING FLASH DATA V2

Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued about 9 years ago

US
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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The U.S. National Lightning Detection Network is a commercial lightning detection network operated by Vaisala. A network of over 100 antennae are connected to a central processor that records the time, polarity, signal strength, and number of strokes of each cloud-to-ground lightning flash detected over the United States starting from Jan. 1, 1995 to present.