Lightweight dew-/frost-point hygrometer based on a surface-acoustic-wave sensor for balloon-borne atmospheric water vapor profile sounding

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Hansford, Graeme M ^a   Freshwater, Ray A ^a   Eden, Louise ^a   Turnbull, Katharine F V ^a   Hadaway, David E ^a   Ostanin, Victor P ^a   Jones, Roderic L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; HYGROMETERS; METEOROLOGY; SENSORS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CURRENT INSTRUMENT; SURFACE-ACOUSTIC-WAVE SENSOR; WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 31544456123     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2140275     Document Type: Article

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