Recent analyses of geostationary lightning mapper (GLM: Goodman et al., 2013;Rudlosky et al,. 2019) observations from NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have revealed that while GLM meets its required specifications for detection over 24 h (Bateman & Mach, 2020), there are drastic reductions in DE in certain storms compared to ground-based radio-frequency lightning locating systems (i.e., Bitzer, 2019;Rutledge et al., 2019;Said & Murphey, 2019;Thomas, 2019). Differences in instrument performance between GLM and the ground networks has been attributed to detection physics. Radio-Frequency (RF) emissions from lightning escape the cloud unimpeded, while the optical emissions that GLM measures interact with the cloud medium through scattering and absorption. Computational models have shown how optical emissions are diluted in space and delayed in time as the result of scattering in various cloud geometries (