NASA NTRS · 19990108789
The Lightning Imaging Sensor
Abstract
The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) is a NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) instrument on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) platform designed to acquire and investigate the distribution and variability of total lightning (i.e., cloud-to-ground and intracloud) between q35' in latitude. Since lightning is one of the responses of the atmosphere to thermodynamic and dynamic forcing, the LIS data is being used to detect deep convection without land-ocean bias, estimate the precipitation mass in the mixed phased region of thunderclouds, and differentiate storms with strong updrafts from those with weak vertical motion.
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Christian, Hugh J., Blakeslee, Richard J., Goodman, Steven J., Mach, Douglas A., Stewart, Michael F., Buechler, Dennis E., Koshak, William J., Hall, John M., Boeck, William, Driscoll, Kevin T., Boccippio, Dennis J.. 1999-06-01. The Lightning Imaging Sensor. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19990108789
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