CICS-MD Scientists Scott Rudlosky and Michael Peterson found that the GLM on GOES-R/GOES-16 observed a fireball near Detroit, MI on January 16. UPDATE: Rudlosky co-authored an article on this and nine other meteors observed by GLM now in press at the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science and published online on July 15.
This summer's JPSS SPARKS students gave presentations on their research projects, developed with NOAA mentors, on August 9.
GOES-East Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) captured a tornado outbreak in Iowa last month and mapped the density of lightning flashes within the storm. CICS-MD Scientist Patrick Meyers started with the GLM data to create this video of the event.