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Quality assessment of MOZAIC and IAGOS capacitive hygrometers: insights from airborne field studies Cover

Quality assessment of MOZAIC and IAGOS capacitive hygrometers: insights from airborne field studies

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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|Jan 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v67.28320 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 28320 - 28320
Submitted on: Apr 24, 2015
Accepted on: Sep 23, 2015
Published on: Jan 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
water vapour,
gases,
evaluation,
upper troposphere,
lowermost stratosphere

© 2015 Patrick Neis, Herman G. J. Smit, Susanne Rohs, Ulrich Bundke, Martina Krämer, Nicole Spelten, Volker Ebert, Bernhard Buchholz, Karin Thomas, Andreas Petzold, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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