A unique program makes approximately monthly measurements of the vertical profile of water vapor with frost
point hygrometers carried by balloons at Boulder, Colorado.
For more detailed local studies as well as measurements in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, Lyman alpha and frost
point hygrometers (see Table 1) and differential absorption and Raman lidars can be useful.
Instruments include wet - and dry - bulb psychrometer and dew
point hygrometer