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Read the latest news stories, feature articles, user stories, and blog posts that feature data archived by NASA's Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC).

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New Lightning Imaging Sensor to be Installed on the International Space Station

The installation of a Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the International Space Station (ISS) will enable detection of 98% of Earth's lightning on an annual basis.

News

April 20, 2021

FLASH—A New Source for Global Lightning Data is Now Available

Provisional data from the Lightning Imaging Sensor aboard the International Space Station - LIS (ISS) are now available through NASA's GHRC DAAC and LANCE.

News

April 20, 2021

Canoes are moored at Playa de San Mateo del Mar on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Tracing the Tehuano

Researchers track a wild Mexican wind.

Feature Article

April 19, 2021

Lightning seen from the shore of Lake Maracaibo

The Maracaibo Beacon

Researchers stalk seasonal lightning in the most struck place on Earth.

Feature Article

April 19, 2021

Lightning strikes near Helsinki, Finland during a 2012 storm.

Striking New Ground

Lightning is much more complex—and extreme—than you think.

Feature Article

April 19, 2021

The image above shows an SSM/I from the SSM/I constellation on 7 Jan 2009 (from 1200 to 2359 UTC). A flood-producing atmospheric river is shown impacting the Washington coast.

Storm Census

Two meteorologists pioneered a new application of a single passive microwave frequency using DAAC data in 1995.

Feature Article

April 19, 2021

SPoRTscast

Weather forecasters improve short-term predictions using data from NASA's Earth Observing System satellites.

Feature Article

April 19, 2021

This NASA satellite image shows a dust storm, hundreds of thousands of square miles in size, moving from the Saharan Air Layer over Africa into the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

Saharan Dust Versus Atlantic Hurricanes

A unique campaign allows scientists to study the effects of Saharan dust storms on Atlantic hurricane development.

Feature Article

April 19, 2021

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New Lightning Imaging Sensor to be Installed on the International Space Station

FLASH—A New Source for Global Lightning Data is Now Available

Tracing the Tehuano

The Maracaibo Beacon

Striking New Ground

Storm Census

SPoRTscast

Saharan Dust Versus Atlantic Hurricanes

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