One frame of the lightning stroke film
© Daile Zhang, CISESS
On July 12, 2012, the day when powerful thunderstorm and high winds knocked out the power on the University of Maryland Campus, Daile Zhang and her team of interns captured a 12-stroke lightning flash on campus just before the lights went out using the Raspberry Pi High-Speed Camera. The goal of this project is to use this data to validate the GOES-R Lightning Mapper (GLM) and ground lightning detection networks, like the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network (ENTLN) and the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN). Based on this comparison, Zhang found: