Survey of intercomparisons of water vapour measurements

Monitoring Atmospheric Water Vapour: Ground-Based Remote Sensing and In-situ Methods

Volumn 10, Issue , 2013, Pages 243-288

  Hocke, Klemens ^a   Martin, Lorenz ^a   Kämpfer, Niklaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES;

INTERCOMPARISONS; WATER VAPOUR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84957581269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3909-7_11     Document Type: Chapter

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