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Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1511 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1516 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1521 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1526 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1531 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1536 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1541 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1546 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1551 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1601 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1606 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1611 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1616 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1621 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1626 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1631 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1636 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1641 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1646 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1651 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1656 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1701 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1706 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 04 Oct 2024 - 1711 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.
