Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) V1

The Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) was an 11-station, ground-based network located in north-central Argentina from November 2018 to April 2019 in support of the RELAMPAGO field campaign. The RELAMPAGO campaign aimed to characterize the atmospheric conditions and terrain effects that facilitate the initiation and growth of intense weather systems in this region of South America. The LMA maps Very High Frequency (VHF) emissions from lightning in three dimensions. These emissions have also been grouped, temporally and spatially, into individual flashes, and the flash characteristics analyzed to produce gridded products. The dataset was produced by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), via an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in order to serve as a validation dataset for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). These LMA data are available from November 8, 2018 through April 20, 2019 in ASCII, HDF5, and netCDF-4 format.

RELAMPAGO 遥感电离、闪电以及中/微尺度过程的自适应地面观测（RELAMPAGO Lightning Mapping Array，简称 LMA）是一项由11个地面站点组成的网络，该网络位于2018年11月至2019年4月期间的阿根廷中北部，旨在支持 RELAMPAGO 野外考察活动。该考察活动旨在描述该南美洲区域大气条件及地形效应，这些效应有利于强烈天气系统的触发和增长。LMA 通过三维方式绘制闪电的甚高频（VHF）辐射。这些辐射还根据时间和空间被分组为单独的闪电，并分析闪电特性以生成网格化产品。该数据集由美国国家航空航天局（NASA）马歇尔太空飞行中心（MSFC）通过与美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）的协议产生，旨在作为地球静止闪电测绘仪（Geostationary Lightning Mapper，简称 GLM）的验证数据集。这些 LMA 数据自2018年11月8日至2019年4月20日以 ASCII、HDF5 和 netCDF-4 格式提供。