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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2256 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2301 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2306 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2311 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2316 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2321 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2326 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2331 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2336 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2341 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2346 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2351 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 26 Apr 2025 - 2356 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0001 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0006 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0011 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0016 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0021 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0026 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0031 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0036 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0041 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0046 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 27 Apr 2025 - 0051 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.
