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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1401 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1406 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1411 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1416 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1421 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1426 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1431 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1436 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1441 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1446 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1451 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1456 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1501 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1506 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1511 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1516 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1521 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1526 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1531 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1536 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1541 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1546 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1551 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Mar 2026 - 1556 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.
