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Note the obvious
differences between thermal IR (usually just called IR) and water vapor IR
(usually just called water vapor) images from the same satellite at the same
time
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Infrared has more discrete areas of
clouds; water vapor is more continuous
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It is easy to tell from thermal IR the
cloud top temperature; water vapor is more ambiguous
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The presence of the polar front jet is
easy to see in water vapor imagery, even without the presence of a comma
cloud or baroclinic leaf
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