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30 Jun 2024 - 08:02 EDT
30 Jun 2024 - 12:02 UTC
GOES-East Mesoscale view - Band 9 at 9°N - 46°W - North Atlantic Ocean
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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1916 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1917 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1918 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1919 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1920 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1921 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1922 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1923 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1924 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1925 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1926 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1927 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1928 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1929 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1930 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1931 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1932 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1933 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1934 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1935 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1936 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1937 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1938 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1939 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1940 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1941 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1942 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1943 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1944 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 29 Jun 2024 - 1945 UTC
Band 9 key:
This band shows atmospheric temperatures in Celsius. Values in the red to yellow range represent a dry atmosphere. Values between yellow and white, including blue, represent a relatively moist atmosphere. Values colder than white, including green, represent clouds.
6.9 µm - "Mid-level Water Vapor" Band - 2 km resolution - Band 9 is the mid-level water vapor band. It is used for tracking middle-tropospheric winds, identifying jet streams, forecasting hurricane track and mid-latitude storm motion, monitoring severe weather potential, estimating mid-level moisture (for legacy vertical moisture profiles)and identifying regions where turbulence might exist. Surface features are usually not apparent in this band. Brightness Temperatures show cooling because of absorption of energy at 6.9 µm by water vapor.
The imager on GOES-16 features three mid-level water vapor bands instead of the single water vapor band on the GOES-13 Imager. The single water vapor band on GOES-13 contained a mixture of water vapor features over many levels of the troposphere, but GOES-16 enables us to focus on water vapor in the upper troposphere (band 8), the middle troposphere (band 9), or the lower troposphere (band 10). The GOES-13 Imager water vapor channel falls between ABI bands 8 and 9.
