World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Data

1.0 General Description

This data set contains global lightning location data from the World Wide Lightning Location
Network (WWLLN) for the RELAMPAGO time period.  The data are in a comma-delimited ASCII format.
These data were provided by Dr. Robert Holzworth at the University of Washington.


2.0 Data Format Description 


These data are in a comma-delimited format:

UTC date
UTC time
latitude of stroke
longitude of stroke
residual error
number of WWLLN stations that saw the stroke

Each file contains 10 minutes of stroke data starting at the time in the file name.


3.0 File Naming Convention

The data are in daily gzipped tar files: 

RELAMPAGO_WWLLN_YYYYMMDD.tgz

The data files are named as follows:

AYYYYMMDDHHmm.RelampagoWWLLN.loc

where
YYYY is the year
MM is the month
DD is the day of month
HH is the UTC hour
mm is the UTC minute


4.0 Data Usage Policy and Requested Acknowledgement


These data are only for RELAMPAGO investigators.  Do not provide these data to a third party.

WWLLN asks that you only publish analysed WWLLN data, you should not publish lists of strokes in a
place or region (i.e. maps, statistics, etc are fine, but now reproductions of the data set itself).

Note to Authors: Please include this statement in your papers using WWLLN data:

"Acknowledgement: The authors wish to thank the World Wide Lightning Location Network (http://wwlln.net), 
a collaboration among over 50 universities and institutions, for providing the lightning location data 
used in this paper." 


5.0 References


http://wwlln.net/ - WWLLN web site