GOES-18 Interleave Testing - Has ended. GOES-West data now supplied from operational GOES-17 satellite.
GOES-18 expected to become operational GOES-West in January 2023. See GOES-18 Interleave Testing for more information.
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GOES-East Full Disk - Air Mass
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Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0440 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0450 UTC
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Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0510 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0520 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0530 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0540 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0550 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0600 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0610 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0620 UTC
Air Mass - RGB based on data from IR & water vapor - 26 Mar 2023 - 0630 UTC
Key for AirMass RGB:
1 - Jet stream / potential vorticity (PV) / deformation zones / dry upper level (dark red / orange)
2 - Cold air mass (dark blue/purple)
3 - Warm air mass (green)
4 - Warm air mass, less moisture (olive/dark orange)
5 - High thick cloud (white)
6 - Mid level cloud (tan/salmon)
7 - Low level cloud (green, dark blue)
8 - Limb effects (purple/blue)
Air Mass RGB is used to diagnose the environment surrounding synoptic systems by enhancing temperature and moisture characteristics of airmasses. Cyclogenesis can be inferred by the identification of warm, dry, ozone-rich descending stratospheric air associated with jet streams and potential vorticity (PV) anomalies. The RGB can be used to validate the location of PV anomalies in model data. Additionally, this RGB can distinguish between polar and tropical airmasses, especially along upper-level frontal boundaries and identify high-, mid-, and low-level clouds.
