GOES-16 was operated in “Mode 4” on 21 April 2017 — this scanning strategy provides Full Disk images every 5 minutes (the current routine scan schedule for GOES-15 and GOES-13 provide one Full Disk image every 3 hours). Shown below are animations of Upper-Level Water Vapor (6.2 µm), Mid-Level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) and Lower-Level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) Full Disk images covering the 12:00 to 23:55 UTC period. You can explore the differences between Water Vapor weighting functions for these 3 ABI bands (and how they change depending on airmass type, satellite viewing angle, etc) at this site.
![GOES-16 Upper-Level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images [click to play animation]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tKAvhdTERtEuEm6QFJBbB3mZX-yc3LXfpzt9gJ6e5mc5RQQaC2g4Nk76ez3JjbJXMsWgn9Mu_B6w=s0-d)
GOES-16 Upper-Level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images [click to play animation]
![GOES-16 Mid-Level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images [click to play animation]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vfF2QDitRS9uK0YpzWA3fbzGIUXggTUp67D7Q7Oz3w2qTrepftTNGRpXHMKe7Hf8ItA3uGDs1LLA=s0-d)
GOES-16 Mid-Level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images [click to play animation]
![GOES-16 Lower-Level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images [click to play animation]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vvj4r__8pkH5xnU_y1-4dnezYRckJihF-aCDtpiZWKNrLJmxnxv8LQ2mHdF6tmNXCDguuo9gX17g=s0-d)
GOES-16 Lower-Level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images [click to play animation]
from CIMSS Satellite Blog http://ift.tt/2pRtxB4
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