electrical hygrometer

From Glossary of Meteorology
A hygrometer that uses a transducing element with electrical properties that are a function of atmospheric water vapor content.

Examples of such a transducer are the humidity strip, the carbon-film hygrometer element, thin-film capacitors, aluminium oxide humidity elements, and goldbeater's skin hygrometers.

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