GOES-18 Interleave Testing - Has ended. GOES-West data now supplied from operational GOES-17 satellite.
GOES-18 expected to become operational GOES-West in January 2023. See GOES-18 Interleave Testing for more information.
26 Mar 2023 - 02:43 EDT
26 Mar 2023 - 06:43 UTC
GOES-East CONUS - Band 9
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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0441 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0446 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0451 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0456 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0501 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0506 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0511 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0516 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0521 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0526 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0531 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0536 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0541 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0546 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0551 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0556 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0601 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0606 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0611 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0616 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0621 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0626 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0631 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Mar 2023 - 0636 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.
