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1 Jul 2024 - 04:23 EDT
1 Jul 2024 - 08:23 UTC
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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0752 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0753 UTC
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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0756 UTC
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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0758 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0759 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0800 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0801 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0802 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0803 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0804 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0805 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0806 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0807 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0808 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0809 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0810 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0811 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0812 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0813 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0814 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0815 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0816 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0817 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0818 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0819 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0820 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 01 Jul 2024 - 0821 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.
