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GOES-19 Mesoscale view - Band 16 at 30°N - 94°W - Jefferson County, TX
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Band 16 - 13.3 µm - CO₂ Longwave - IR - 28 Jan 2025 - 1831 UTC
Band 16 - 13.3 µm - CO₂ Longwave - IR - 28 Jan 2025 - 2150 UTC
Band 16 - 13.3 µm - CO₂ Longwave - IR - 29 Jan 2025 - 0109 UTC
Band 16 - 13.3 µm - CO₂ Longwave - IR - 29 Jan 2025 - 0428 UTC
Band 16 - 13.3 µm - CO₂ Longwave - IR - 29 Jan 2025 - 0747 UTC
Band 16 - 13.3 µm - CO₂ Longwave - IR - 29 Jan 2025 - 1106 UTC
13.3 µm - CO₂ Longwave IR Band - 2 km resolution - Band 16 is used for mean tropospheric air temperature estimation, tropopause delineation, and as part of quantitative cloud products for cloud opacity estimation, cloud-top height assignments of cloud-drift motion vectors, and supplementing Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) observations.
Band 16 corresponds approximately to the old GOES-13 longwave IR channel.