ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Michael Peterson created an animation loop of Hurricane Harvey showing cloud cover and optical lightning emissions on August 25-26, 2017. Peterson combined infrared imagery from GOES-16’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) as well as imagery from the satellite's Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), which observes total lightning (both in-cloud and cloud-to-ground) day and night across the Western Hemisphere. The loop received considerable social media attention via the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) dissemination channels.
![Top row: Neil M. Donahue, Dalia Kirschbaum, Juan Lora Bottom row: Tracey Holloway, Claudia Tebaldi, Ines Azevedo](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Seminar-Preview-Spring-2024-2-e1709322176365-150x150.png)