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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1900 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1901 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1902 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1903 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1904 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1905 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1906 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1907 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1908 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1909 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1910 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1911 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1912 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1913 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1914 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1915 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1916 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1917 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1918 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1919 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1920 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1921 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1922 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1923 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1924 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1925 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1926 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1927 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1928 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 19 Oct 2020 - 1929 UTC
About Band 9
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.
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