edu.ucar.opensky::articles:22027 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-25T15:50:14.162855 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7n87dpc https://doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS/DATA201 https Related Dataset #1 Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on TRMM Science Data Mapping the lateral development of lightning flashes from orbit 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7n87dpc https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028583 Peterson, M. author Rudlosky, S. author Deierling, Wiebke author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Optical lightning measurements from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) are used to map the lateral development of lightning flashes and produce statistics that describe their motion through the electrified cloud. This is accomplished by monitoring the frame-by-frame (group-level) evolution of the optical signals produced during each flash. While the optical flash properties recorded by LIS gravitate towards the most exceptional optical signals produced during the flash, group-level data describe the evolution and lateral development of the flash resulting from physical lightning process that emits enough light out of the top of the cloud to be detected from orbit. The groups that comprise LIS flashes constitute examples of complex lateral flash structure that can extend 80km in length with dozens to hundreds of visible branches. The lateral development of individual flashes is described in terms of its speed and direction of motion, whether the development extends the overall length of the flash or reilluminates an existing segment, and whether it is directed inbound or outbound with respect to the origin. Sixty-five percent of propagating groups are directed outbound from the origin, 22% extend the length of the flash, and 3-5% reilluminate an existing branch. LIS flashes are commonly oriented from east to west and develop at speeds ranging from 10(4) to 10(6)m/s, consistent with large-scale leader development. These results provide evidence that lightning imagers may be used in conjunction with Lightning Mapping Array systems to document physical lightning phenomena across global domains. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2018 American Geophysical Union. None eng geoscientificInformation