GOES-12 Imagery of Hurricane Katrina: Full Disk Water Vapor (WMS)

  • Released Wednesday, October 5, 2005
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The GOES-12 satellite sits at 75 degrees west longitude at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers over the equator, in geosynchronous orbit. At this position its Imager instrument takes pictures of cloud patterns in several wavelengths for all of North and South America, a primary measurement used in weather forecasting. Every three hours the Imager takes a picture of the full disk of the Earth. This animation shows a sequence of these full disk images in the 6.47 to 7.02 micron wavelength band, during the period that Hurricane Katrina passed through the Gulf of Mexico. This wavelength band is useful for estimating mid-level water vapor content and for observing atmospheric motion in that level.

GOES-12 full-disk upper level water vapor imagery of Hurricane Katrina from August 23, 2005 to August 31, 2005.

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, October 5, 2005.
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