{"id":39787,"date":"2021-01-30T22:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T22:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=39787"},"modified":"2021-02-02T20:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T20:12:06","slug":"geostationary-lightning-mapper-glm-data-displayed-with-geo2grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39787","title":{"rendered":"Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) data displayed with Geo2Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39791\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/GOES-16_ABI_C13_20210130_19_to_20anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39791\" class=\"wp-image-39791\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/GOES-16_ABI_C13_20210130_19_to_20anim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 ABI CONUS sector band 13 (Clean Window, 10.3 \u00b5m) infrared imagery, 1901-2001 UTC on 30 January 2021<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\">Geo2Grid<\/a> is a scripting tool that accesses various Python packages to display Geostationary Satellite data, described on this blog before <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37391\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37063\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/32399\">here<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/polar2grid\/\">Polar2Grid<\/a> is a similar package for Low Earth Orbit satellite data).\u00a0 The animation above shows GOES-16 Band-13 (Clean Window, 10.3 \u00b5m) infrared data for an hour over Oklahoma\/Kansas\/Missouri\/Arkansas during a time when tornadoes occurred (imagery was produced using Geo2Grid and GOES-16 level-1b radiance files).\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/210130_rpts.html\">SPC Storm Reports<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Gridded GLM data are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/atm.ucar.edu\/native\/satellite\/GOES\/GRB16\/Products\/GeostationaryLightningMapper\/\">this website;<\/a>\u00a0 both CONUS and Full Disk domains are available, CONUS data are a simple subset of the Full Disk imagery.\u00a0 These netCDF files (with &#8216;GLMC&#8217; in the filename) are available each minute, and contain a variety of gridded GLM products, some of which as distributed to National Weather Service forecast offices. By using the &#8216;glm_l2&#8217; reader in Geo2Grid, data can be plotted, and subsequently overlain on top of the ABI imagery, as shown below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39789\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/GOES16_ABI_1901_to_2001_GLMTOE_1901_to_2000anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39789\" class=\"wp-image-39789\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/GOES16_ABI_1901_GLMTOE_1901.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 ABI CONUS sector band 13 (Clean Window, 10.3 \u00b5m) infrared imagery, 1901-2001 UTC on 30 January 2021, overlain with GLM Total Optical Energy at 1-minute time steps (Click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geo2Grid is a scripting tool that accesses various Python packages to display Geostationary Satellite data, described on this blog before here, here and here (Polar2Grid is a similar package for Low Earth Orbit satellite data).\u00a0 The animation above shows GOES-16 Band-13 (Clean Window, 10.3 \u00b5m) infrared data for an hour over Oklahoma\/Kansas\/Missouri\/Arkansas during a time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":39790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,74,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-16","category-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39793,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787\/revisions\/39793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}