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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 1850 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 1905 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 1910 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 1920 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 1930 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 1940 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 1950 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2000 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2010 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2020 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2030 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2040 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2050 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2100 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2110 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2120 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2130 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2140 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2150 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2200 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2210 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2220 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2230 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 22 Jul 2023 - 2240 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.
