Datasets / GAI LIGHTNING GROUND STRIKES V1


GAI LIGHTNING GROUND STRIKES V1

Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued about 9 years ago

US
beta

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

This data set is restricted to EOS affiliated researchers. The U.S. National Lightning Detection Network is a commercial lightning detection network operated by Global Atmospherics, Inc., (GAI), formerly Geomet Data Services. A network of about 105 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, 1994 to present.