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Atmospheric Electricity Data Access and Tools
NASA collects data on a wide range of lightning data from location-specific lightning detection counts to field campaign data useful for instrument validation. Our datasets and tools help users find and integrate the data they need to determine how electricity flows through Earth’s atmosphere and predict where lightning may strike.
Atmospheric Electricity Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUARDIAN | The GNSS-based Upper Atmospheric Realtime Disaster Information and Alert Network (GUARDIAN) is a near real-time (NRT) ionospheric monitoring tool for natural hazards warning. | Monitoring Natural Events | |
| LIS Space Time Domain Search | The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) Space Time Domain Search allows users to quickly perform a space time domain search of LIS science products. | Search and Discovery |
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Datasets
| Dataset | Size | Start Date | End Date | N Lat | S Lat | E long | W Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) IMPACTS V2 | 48.66 | 26.91 | -64.89 | -123.62 | |||
| GRIP LIGHTNING INSTRUMENT PACKAGE (LIP) V1 | 36.00 | 12.09 | -71.46 | -124.40 | |||
| ACES TRIGGERED DATA | 26.00 | 23.00 | -81.00 | -85.00 | |||
| ACES CONTINUOUS DATA V1 | 26.00 | 23.00 | -81.00 | -85.00 | |||
| ACES ELECTRIC FIELD MILL V1 | 26.00 | 23.00 | -81.00 | -85.00 | |||
| CAMEX-4 DC-8 LIGHTNING INSTRUMENT PACKAGE (LIP) V1 | 50.00 | 10.00 | -50.00 | -105.00 | |||
| TRMM-LBA LIGHTNING INSTRUMENT PACKAGE (LIP) V1 | -9.00 | -16.02 | -47.00 | -63.41 | |||
| TCSP ER-2 LIGHTNING INSTRUMENT PACKAGE (LIP) V1 | 24.78 | 4.68 | -53.07 | -99.74 | |||
| KSC ADVANCED GROUND BASED FIELD MILL V1 | 28.99 | 28.00 | -80.00 | -80.99 | |||
| CAMEX-3 LIGHTNING INSTRUMENT PACKAGE (LIP) V1 | 34.59 | 13.98 | -63.22 | -89.97 |
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