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6 October 2023 Multi-band lightning optical emission from tropical storms recorded during the Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly's Eye GLM Simulator and Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes Flight Campaign
Mason Quick, Patrick Gatlin, Phillip Bitzer, Timothy Lang, Nikolai Ostgaard
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Proceedings Volume 12685, Earth Observing Systems XXVIII; 1268506 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677753
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2023, San Diego, California, United States
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The Fly’s Eye GLM Simulator (FEGS) is a multi-band radiometer system designed to measure lightning optical emission through thunderstorm cloud-tops. It is carried as a payload on the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft with a primary objective to provide ground validation measurements for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper onboard NOAA GOES-R series satellites. During 2022/23 a series of upgrades were applied to the FEGS optical and electronics systems to improve radiometric precision and optimize the sensor dynamic range. In July 2023 FEGS will collect a new set of observations as part of the Airborne Lightning Observatory for FEGS and Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (ALOFT) flight campaign. This presentation will describe recent upgrades to the FEGS instrument, provide a preliminary analysis of observations from the ALOFT campaign, and discuss implications for future space-based lightning optical detectors.
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Mason Quick, Patrick Gatlin, Phillip Bitzer, Timothy Lang, and Nikolai Ostgaard "Multi-band lightning optical emission from tropical storms recorded during the Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly's Eye GLM Simulator and Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes Flight Campaign", Proc. SPIE 12685, Earth Observing Systems XXVIII, 1268506 (6 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677753
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KEYWORDS
Lightning
Eye
Gamma radiation
Observatories
Radio optics
Equipment
Radiometry
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