Performance Assessment of the Optical Transient Detector and Lightning Imaging Sensor. Part I: Predicted Diurnal Variability

By D. Boccippio, William J. Koshak, Richard J. Blakeslee. 2002

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Citations in the corpus

• Optimized regional and interannual variability of lightning in a global chemical transport model constrained by LIS/OTD satellite data (2012, unknown): “LIS is a component of the NASA Tropical Rain Measuring Mission (TRMM), with a narrower latitudinal range of 35 S – 35 N, and higher DEs of about 70 – 90% [ Koshak et al. , 2000; Boccippio et al. , 2002; Christian et al. , 2003; Mach et al. , 2007].”
• Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space by the Optical Transient Detector (2003, unknown): “The number of pulses that are detected during each observed flash is in turn dependent on the actual radiance threshold, the pixel resolution and the amount of light scattered toward the instrument [ Boccippio et al. , 2002].”
• Observational evidence of aerosol enhancement of lightning activity and convective invigoration (2011, background): “Total lightning flash count data from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) instrument aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is the primary data source of lightning activity [Boccippio et al., 2002; Christian et al., 2003] and it has a detection efficiency of 75–90%.”
• The global lightning-induced nitrogen oxides source (2007, background): “Measurements on such low orbiting satellites suffer from cosmic radiation when passing the South Atlantic anomaly of the geomagnetic field off the coast of Southern Brazil (Heirtzler, 2002).”
• Highlights of a New Ground-Based, Hourly Global Lightning Climatology (2012, methodology): “When detection efficiency [~10% for WWLLN, as discussed in the “Data” section, and ~80%–90% for LIS, according to Boccippio et al. (2002)] is taken into account, WWLLN samples ~100 times as many strokes/flashes per year as LIS.”
• Lightning enhancement over major oceanic shipping lanes (2017, methodology): “…respectively by the precipitation radar (PR; data set 2A25, version 7; [Iguchi et al., 2000]) and the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS; version 4; [Boccippio et al., 2002]) aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) satellite, and 3-hourly gridded rain rates estimated from TRMM and…”
• Terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes in the Fermi era: Improved observations and analysis methods (2013, methodology): “TRMM from 1997), both of which are spaced-based optical lightning detectors [Boccippio et al., 2002; Christian et al., 2003].”