LIS 0.1 DEGREE VERY HIGH RESOLUTION GRIDDED LIGHTNING SEASONAL CLIMATOLOGY (VHRSC) V1

The LIS 0.1 Degree Very High Resolution Gridded Lightning Seasonal Climatology (VHRSC) dataset consists of gridded seasonal 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季节气候学（VHRSC）数据集，由闪电成像传感器（LIS）自1998年1月1日至2013年12月31日期间观测到的总闪电闪光率网格化季节气候学组成。LIS是搭载在热带降雨测量任务（TRMM）卫星上的仪器，用于检测地球热带和亚热带地区发生的总闪电的分布和变异性。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。网格化气候学包括年平均闪光率、24小时分辨率的平均日循环闪光率以及以每日、每月或季节分辨率的平均年度循环闪光率。所有数据集均以0.1度空间分辨率呈现。闪光率年度循环数据集（即每日、每月或季节）均包含49天和1度箱形移动平均，以消除日循环并平滑闪光率较低的区域，从而使结果更为稳健。