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<\/a>GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Both GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> and GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> were placed into the Mode 6<\/strong> scan strategy for a 3-day period of testing beginning at 1500 UTC on 19\u00a0 February 2019 — which provides Full Disk images every 10 minutes (instead of every 15 minutes for the more common Mode 3 scan strategy). Further details on GOES-R series scan modes are available here<\/strong><\/a> and here<\/strong><\/a>. GOES-16 Full Disk “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images are shown above, with Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images below.<\/p>\n GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>One of the more striking features over the North Atlantic Ocean was a rapidly-intensifying Hurricane Force low<\/strong><\/a> — an animation that cycles through GOES-16 Visible and Water Vapor images of this system is displayed below.<\/p>\n GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 Air Mass RGB<\/strong><\/a> images from the AOS<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em> exhibited the orange-to-red hues of ozone-rich air within the atmospheric column due to a lowered tropopause associated with the rapidly deepening North Atlantic storm.<\/p>\n GOES-16 Air Mass RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Looking to the west with GOES-17, Full Disk animations of Visible and Water Vapor images are shown below.<\/p>\n GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div> GOES-17 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>The more frequent 10-minute images allowed a short-lived signature of orographic waves within a transient dry slot immediately downwind (northeast)<\/em> of Atka (PAAK<\/strong><\/a>) in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska\u00a0 (below)<\/strong><\/em> — such a signature often indicates a high potential of turbulence. There were also areas of transverse banding seen with the jet stream<\/strong><\/a> cirrus just southeast of Atka (another satellite signature of turbulence).<\/p>\n GOES-17 Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m, left)<\/em> and Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m, right)<\/em> Water Vapor images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Similar to what was seen over the North Atlantic, GOES-17 Air Mass RGB images (below)<\/strong><\/em> exhibited the orange-to-red hues of ozone-rich air within the atmospheric column due to a lowered tropopause poleward of the jet stream axis as it moved northeastward across the Aleutians.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>