| http://wwlln.net/new/map/ WWLLN continously monitors global lightning and has been operational since 2004. Univ of WA has some loops on it's satellite pages, restricted access though http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/ http://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/glm.html this will be awesome when in use, but it's a long way from being in orbit even :( GLM will measure total lightning activity continuously over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions with near uniform spatial resolution of approximately 10 km. GLM will provide early predictions of intensifying storms and severe weather events. It will also provide data for long-term climate studies. The instrument will aid forecasting of weather events that could affect aviation safety and efficiency. GLM is unique both in how it operates and in the information it collects. While ground-based sensors only provide cloud-to-ground lightning coverage, GLM provides total lightning activity detection with both cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud coverage. Also, ground-based systems can only provide coverage over land. GLM will identify growing, active and potentially destructive thunderstorms in areas over both land and oceans. there have been several sites testing for GOES-R, SPORT & CIRA among them http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport/goesrpg/pglm.html# http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/research/goes-r/proving_ground/cira_product_list/nhc_lightning-based_tc_intensity_prediction.asp http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/research/goes-r/proving_ground/cira_product_list/ http://www.earthnetworks.com/products/totallightningnetwork.aspx http://www.earthnetworks.com/MediaCenter/PressRelease/tabid/118/newsid513/455/US-National-Weather-Service-Selects-Earth-Networks-Total-Lightning-Data-and-Weather-Visualization-Tool-for-Operations-and-Research-/Default.aspx August 6, 2012 - Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug and operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, announces that it has been awarded the contract as the primary provider of total lightning data by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS). With the contract, NOAA and NWS will utilize data from the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network, both operationally and in research, to advance severe weather forecasting and warning applications. Data from the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network was selected by the National Weather Service for its technical precision and competencies. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/severe-weather/lightning-products-and-services NCDC provides verified lightning damage and casualty reports as well as lightning flash data recorded from lightning detection sensors. The lightning flash data is available through a partnership with Vaisala and cooperative effort with the U.S. Air Force 14th Weather Squadron and contains an archive of the Vaisala National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) data from 1986 to present. Through a contract with Vaisala, the raw data from NCDC is available only to government and military users. However, NCDC is developing several derived products that are freely available for all users. These products include summaries of lightning flashes by county and state as well as gridded lightning frequency products. The products are produced as standard formats, including NetCDF, and are available by direct download and web services. The web services provide the ability to subset the data both spatially and temporally. The NLDN dataset is available for the continental United States. wish this had a lightning layer :( http://earth.nullschool.net/ |