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Archive Lightning Data
In contrast, archived or historical lightning data is any data that is older than 24 hours from time of detection. Historical lightning data of this nature is very valuable for forensic analysis, after-the-fact fault analysis, longer-term logistical and operational planning, claims resolutions, research, statistical analysis, and integration with a variety of market-specific information.
- Premium licensing option in conjunction with real-time data services.
- Text, XML, KML or shapefile format, which can be ingested into commercial or custom software.
- Bulk datasets that can be integrated with business data for statistical analysis.
- Lightning Verification Reports (forensics) to assist in the determination of lightning.
- Date / Time (UTC); to millisecond precision in datasets after 2008
- Latitude and longitude (decimal degrees)
- Peak amplitude of event with signal polarity (amps)
- Indication of lightning event type
- Error ellipse major/minor axes (km); orientation of major axis (degrees), in datasets after 2008
"2009-06-26 10:24:48","118","42.5448978","-70.3732445","0","0.25","0.25","-49"
"2009-06-26 10:24:48","297","42.5437512","-70.4220905","-20000","0.25","0.25","-43"
"2009-06-26 10:24:48","361","42.5573448","-70.3274864","-16200","0.5","0.25","-43"
"2009-06-26 10:26:06","381","42.5303845","-70.3767344","0","0.5","0.25","-44"
"2009-06-26 10:26:41","574","42.5506026","-70.3984027","-7800","0.5","0.25","-45"
"2009-06-26 10:31:25","279","42.5660926","-70.3597541","-15500","0.5","0.25","-45"
Data may be provided for all parameters or reduced based on customer requirements, such as cloud-to-ground strokes or latitude/longitude information only.
The USPLN online lightning verification report service provides an easy and intuitive way to order reports following a registration process. The output confirms the presence or absence of lightning strikes at a given address on a specific date(s).
Every report includes a search of the USPLN archive, a detailed color street-level map, a user-defined search period of 1 to 72 hours, a search radius as small as one mile or up to 15 mile radius, a print out of each lightning stroke detected, including date, time, latitude, longitude, polarity, amplitude and range bearing (from the search location to each lightning stroke). The report can be viewed online and stored as a PDF.
