Abstract: his study provides, for the first time, an analysis of the climatological diurnal variations in the lightning flash radiance data product (ε) from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Lightning Imaging Sensor (TRMM/LIS). ...

Abstract: A constrained, least-squares method for analyzing multiple-station measurements of lightning field changes (?Es) is introduced. Previous methods have attempted to fit the spatial pattern of lightning ?Es using nonlinear ...

Abstract: n analytic perturbation method is introduced for retrieving the lightning ground flash fraction in a set of N lightning flashes observed by a satellite lightning mapper. The value of N must be large, typically in the ...

Abstract: The geolocation of lightning flashes observed by spaceborne optical sensors depends upon a priori assumptions of the cloud-top height (or, more generally, the height of the radiant emitter) as observed by the satellite. ...

Abstract: model is introduced for estimating the nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) production from a lightning return stroke channel. A realistic modified transmission line model return stroke current is assumed to propagate vertically ...

Abstract: Laboratory calibration and observed background radiance data are used to determine the effective sensitivities of the Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), as functions of local hour and pixel ...

Abstract: AbstractThe Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) that was on board the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured optical emissions produced by lightning. In this work, we quantify and evaluate the LIS performance ...