LIS 0.1 DEGREE VERY HIGH RESOLUTION GRIDDED LIGHTNING FULL CLIMATOLOGY (VHRFC) V1

The LIS 0.1 Degree Very High Resolution Gridded Lightning Full Climatology (VHRFC) dataset consists of gridded full climatologies of total lightning flash rates seen by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) from January 1, 1998 through December 31, 2013. LIS is an instrument on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission satellite (TRMM) used to detect the distribution and variability of total lightning occurring in the Earth's tropical and subtropical regions. This information can be used for severe storm detection and analysis, and also for lightning-atmosphere interaction studies. The gridded climatologies include annual mean flash rate, mean diurnal cycle of flash rate with 24 hour resolution, and mean annual cycle of flash rate with daily, monthly, or seasonal resolution. All datasets are in 0.1 degree spatial resolution. The mean annual cycle of flash rate datasets (i.e., daily, monthly or seasonal) have both 49-day and 1 degree boxcar moving averages to remove diurnal cycle and smooth regions with low flash rate, making the results more robust.

LIS 0.1度高分辨率网格化闪电完整气候（VHRFC）数据集，由闪电成像传感器（LIS）从1998年1月1日至2013年12月31日观测到的总闪电闪现频率的网格化完整气候数据组成。LIS为热带降雨测量任务（TRMM）卫星上的仪器，用于检测地球上热带和亚热带地区发生的总闪电的分布和变化。这些信息可用于严重风暴的检测与分析，以及闪电与大气相互作用的研究。网格化气候数据包括年平均闪现频率、具有24小时分辨率的平均日变化闪现频率，以及具有每日、每月或季节分辨率的平均年变化闪现频率。所有数据集的空间分辨率为0.1度。对于平均年变化闪现频率数据集（即每日、每月或季节），均采用49天和1度箱形移动平均，以消除日变化并平滑低闪现频率区域，使结果更为稳健。