Animated Daily Lightning Map
This is an animated map illustrating how the daily probability of lightning (the light blue glow) varies with the seasons.
The highest lightning probabilty corresponds to the warmest locations at any given time (a higher probabilty of thunderstorms) and also with the seasons. The warmest locations tend to be even warmer in summer so lightning probability is even higher in those locations.
This movie illustrates the daily variation of lightning probability world-wide.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, January 10, 2011.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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Lightning [TRMM: LIS]
ID: 515
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