@article{c2c08eff7ddc4591a8bbd959fb1cdca8,
title = "Meteorological Imagery for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper",
abstract = "The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series of weather satellites provides point geolocations of lightning flashes that are further comprised of a hierarchy of geolocated groups and events. This study describes an open-source method for reconstruction of imagery from those point detections that retains the quantitative physical measurements made by GLM, restores the spatial footprint of the events, and connects that spatial footprint to the groups and flashes. Meteorological signals are demonstrated to be more apparent in the gridded imagery than in the point detections, leading to their adoption by the United States National Weather Service as the first GLM product available in their real-time displays. Analysis of a mesoscale convective system over Argentina confirms that there is a class of propagating lightning observed by GLM (distinct from that in storm cores) that can be visualized and quantified using our imagery-based approach.",
keywords = "GOES-R, Geostationary, Imagery, Lightning, Open source, Satellite",
author = "Bruning, {Eric C.} and Tillier, {Clemens E.} and Edgington, {Samantha F.} and Rudlosky, {Scott D.} and Joe Zajic and Chad Gravelle and Matt Foster and Calhoun, {Kristin M.} and Campbell, {P. Adrian} and Stano, {Geoffrey T.} and Schultz, {Christopher J.} and Meyer, {Tiffany C.}",
note = "Funding Information: ). The GLM data and processing code used in this study are available at the DOIs indicated by citations in the text. Bruning gratefully acknowledges the support of the GOES‐R Program through NASA award NNX16AD24G and NOAA's JTTI program via CICS‐MD award NA14NEWS4320003/66892‐Z7813012. Amanda Terborg and Stephanie Stevenson provided infrastructure support and early product feedback at NOAA's Aviation Weather and National Hurricane Centers. Vaisala Inc. collected and provided the GLD360 data as part of GLM cal/val activities. The authors thank Katrina Virts for discussion of the lightning ellipsoid and Jonathan Wynn Smith for a review of a draft of this manuscript and the comments by three anonymous reviewers that helped improve the text and figures. Plots for this manuscript utilized Matplotlib (Hunter, Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright}2019. The Authors.",
year = "2019",
month = dec,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1029/2019JD030874",
language = "English",
volume = "124",
pages = "14285--14309",
journal = "Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres",
issn = "2169-897X",
number = "24",
}