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GOES-19 CONUS - Band 8
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Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0456 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0501 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0506 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0511 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0516 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0521 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0526 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0531 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0536 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0541 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0546 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0551 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0556 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0601 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0606 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0611 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0616 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0621 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0626 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0631 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0636 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0641 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0646 UTC
Band 8 - 6.2 µm - Upper-Level Water Vapor - IR - 07 Jun 2025 - 0651 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.
