Input data set: Lightning



Protocol relation: Protocol
Data Type: Other
Simulation rounds: ISIMIP3a
Description:

Climate related forcing: Monthly gridded (0.5º) Flash Rate Monthly Climatology for year 2014.

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Flash Rate Monthly Climatology prepared for ISIMIP Cecil (2006), https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/hydro/details/lohrmc.

We do not provide "no climate change" lightning data. Instead the original Flash Rate Monthly Climatology from Cecil (2006) should be used in the counterclim set-up.

Data source

- Cecil, Daniel J. 2006. LIS/OTD 0.5 Degree High Resolution Monthly Climatology (HRMC) [indicate subset used]. Dataset available online from the NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A., DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/LIS/LIS-OTD/DATA303

- Kaplan, Jed O., Koch, Alexander, & Lau, Katie Hong-Kiu. (2023). Estimated future global lightning strokes (2010-2100) (v1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7511843

Download Instructions

For ISIMIP participants, these files are available for download on the DKRZ cluster server using the path /work/bb0820/ISIMIP/ISIMIP3a/InputData/climate/lightning

For external users, these data can be downloaded from the ISIMIP Repository using the link below.

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DOI
For more information and how to cite this dataset, please follow the DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7511843