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Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0711 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0716 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0721 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0726 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0731 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0736 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0741 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0746 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0751 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0756 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0801 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0806 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0811 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0816 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0821 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0826 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0831 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0836 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0841 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0846 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0851 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0856 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0901 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 21 Nov 2024 - 0906 UTC
Band 8 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.
6.2 µm - "Upper-level Water Vapor" Band - 2 km resolution - Band 8 will be used for upper-level tropospheric water vapor tracking, jet stream identification, hurricane track forecasting, mid-latitude storm forecasting, severe weather analysis, upper mid-level moisture estimation (for legacy vertical moisture profiles) and turbulence detection.
The imager 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.
