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    • GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Gridded Data Products

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

    The GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Gridded Data Products consist of full disk extent gridded lightning flash data collected by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on board each of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites R-Series (GOES-R). These satellites are a part of the GOES-R series program: a four-satellite series within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) GOES program. These are GOES-16, -17, -18, and -19. Currently, GOES-18 and GOES-19 are the active satellites. GLM is the first operational geostationary optical lightning detector that provides total lightning data (in-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground flashes). While it detects each of these types of lightning, the GLM is unable to distinguish between each type. The GLM GOES L3 dataset files contain gridded lightning flash data over the Western Hemisphere in netCDF-4 format from December 31, 2017 to present as this is an ongoing dataset.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
    Publisher NASA/MSFC/GHRC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/GLM/GRID/DATA101
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id a6dffa68-509f-4b72-834c-ab6ad0788239
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":162.9,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":57,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-76.2,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-57},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a28f5b5cac9816360391429fc1722acf5d50670018a11a407b2cf814178acbe7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2017-12-18/2026-03-30

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