Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

LANL Lightning Flash Time Duration Ground Truth

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1489907· OSTI ID:1489907
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), Aiken, SC (United States)

Video cameras were used to record cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flash events on or near Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) over 3 days in August, 2018. Custom scripting software was created to automatically trigger camera recording off National Lightning Data Network (NLDN) streamed reporting of CG lightning within 12 miles of LANL. Cameras were sited near meteorology towers at LANL and 4k video captures were manually reviewed to extract still sequence images from 9 identified CG flashes. A camera frame rate of 30 fps was used to estimate time durations of 33-200 milliseconds over this natural lightning dataset.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1489907
Report Number(s):
LA-UR--18-31760
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Assessing the Impact of Lightning NOx Emissions in CMAQ Using Lightning Flash Data from WWLLN over the Contiguous United States
Journal Article · Sat Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Atmosphere (Basel) · OSTI ID:1983103

Combined Optical and Radio-Frequency Perspectives on a Hybrid Cloud-To-Ground Lightning Flash Observed by the FORTE Satellite
Journal Article · Wed Mar 10 23:00:00 EST 2021 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · OSTI ID:1804416

Related Subjects