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Category: General interpretation

Water vapor channel interpretation

GOES-12 “water vapor channel” (6.5 µm) imagery on 28 August 2006 showed a rather strong moisture gradient in the southcentral US, oriented along a cold frontal boundary. In the color enhancement applied to an AWIPS water vapor image (above), dry air is denoted by orange to yellow shades, while increasing moisture is... Read More