GOES GLM Lightning Data Made Available to NASA Mission Tool Suite

To support the NASA Ames Earth Science Project Office, Dynamic and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS) and other NASA Airborne campaigns, NASA/MSFC-SPoRT developed a capability to provide lightning data from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument aboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) platforms in a format that is compatible with the NASA Mission Tool Suite (MTS) at NASA Ames. GLM data are received at the NASA/MSFC GOES receiving stations, decreasing the latency of receiving data from external sources. The data for each of the GOES East and GOES West platforms are gridded on the same grid as the GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), and then converted into a GeoJSON format compatible with MTS. An access point at SPoRT has been provided to allow the MTS to incorporate the data into their product suite. The significance of this accomplishment is that the lightning data may now be seen as the spatial extent to which it covers rather than just the single ground strike location that was previously available. Further, the MTS may now view spatial lightning data with the geophysical data value for approximately two-fifths of the globe and is available for all future NASA field campaigns.

Geostationary Lightning Mapper
Geostationary Lightning Mapper
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