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Post-tropical Cyclone Bonnie - Band 9 at 19.5°N - 129.4°W
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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 09 Jul 2022 - 2240 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 09 Jul 2022 - 2300 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 09 Jul 2022 - 2330 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 09 Jul 2022 - 2340 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0000 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0010 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0030 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0040 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0050 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0120 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0130 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0210 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0220 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0240 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0250 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0300 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0310 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0330 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0340 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0350 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0400 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0410 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0430 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 10 Jul 2022 - 0440 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.
