Thin film capacitive sensors

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

Volumn 10, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-38

  Smit, Herman ^a   Kivi, Rigel ^b   Vömel, Holger ^c   Paukkunen, Ari ^d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d VAISALA OYJ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING;

CAPACITIVE SENSORS;

EID: 85014407843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3909-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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