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Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1500 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1520 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1540 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1600 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1610 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1620 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1630 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1650 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1720 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1730 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1740 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1820 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1830 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1840 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1850 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1910 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1930 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1940 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 1950 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 2000 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 2010 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 2020 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 2040 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 16 Aug 2020 - 2050 UTC
Band 8 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.
6.2 µm - "Upper-level Water Vapor" Band - 2 km resolution - Band 8 will be used for upper-level tropospheric water vapor tracking, jet stream identification, hurricane track forecasting, mid-latitude storm forecasting, severe weather analysis, upper mid-level moisture estimation (for legacy vertical moisture profiles) and turbulence detection.
The imager 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.
