The Optical Transient Detector (OTD): Instrument Characteristics and Cross-Sensor Validation

By D. Boccippio, William J. Koshak, Richard J. Blakeslee, K. Driscoll, D. Mach, D. Buechler, W. Boeck, H. Christian, S. Goodman. 2000

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Global and Planetary Change

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Remote sensed and in situ constraints on processes affecting tropical tropospheric ozone (2006, methodology): “The LIS, OTD and GOME instruments The Optical Transient Detector (OTD) (Boccippio et al., 2000b) was launched in 1995 on the MicroLab-1 satellite.”
Regional Differences in Tropical Lightning Distributions (2000, methodology): “Radiances reported in the original OTD dataset were calculated using a crude calibration technique, assigning different sensor gain levels to three solar conditions (day, night, twilight); this technique and the resulting high-radiance variance is described in Boccippio et al. (2000).”
Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space by the Optical Transient Detector (2003, unknown): “found in climatological ratios of uncorrected OTD and LIS data [Boccippio et al., 2000b]. The results of Boccippio et al. [2002] appear to slightly over predict LIS detection efficiency, based on limited ground validation of that sensor [Thomas et al.”
Optimized regional and interannual variability of lightning in a global chemical transport model constrained by LIS/OTD satellite data (2012, unknown): “They are then adjusted with the hourly LIS detection efficiencies from Boccippio et al. [2002], and averaged to derive monthly regional flash rates for scaling”
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).”
Performance Assessment of the Optical Transient Detector and Lightning Imaging Sensor. Part I: Predicted Diurnal Variability (2002, methodology): “…(Christian et al. 1992) were to achieve a 4.7 mJ sr21 m22 operating threshold, yielding a 90% flash detection efficiency [based on studies by Christian and Goodman (1987), discussed below], although the variability of this threshold with time-ofday and across the field of view (FOV) were…”