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  • Locations and Time of Alaska Lightning Strikes 1986-2010
  • Verbyla, Dave L.; Professor GIS/Remote Sensing
  • 2011-06-15
  • Verbyla, D.L. 2013. Locations and Time of Alaska Lightning Strikes 1986-2010 ver 10. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e44b85ebc0f499ddd0f4a6ea4acde0d0 (Accessed 2025-08-30).

  • This dataset contains locations and time of1986-2010 lightning strikes recorded by a lightning strike detector network and downloaded from the alaska fire service. The data consists of 1,454,279 lightning locations as GIS points.

  • N: 72.0      S: 50.0      E: -130.0      W: -180.0
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  • https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e44b85ebc0f499ddd0f4a6ea4acde0d0
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