Instruments used for weather parameters

 

• Temperature: Maximum-Minimum thermometer
• Relative Humidity: Wet and dry bulb thermometer, hygrometer, psychrometer
• Rainfall: Rain gauge
• Wind Speed/Velocity: Anemometer
• Wind Direction: Wind vane
• Sunshine Duration: Cambel-Stokes sunshine recorder
• Evaporation: Open pan evaporimeter
• Evapotranspiration: Lysimeter
• Air Pressure: Aneroid barometer
• Cloud Height: Ceilometer
• Total Incoming Radiation: Pyranometer
• High Temperature from Distance: Pyrometer
• Low Temperature: Cryometer
• Specific Gravity of Soil: Pycnometer
• Soil Moisture Tension: Tensiometer
• Depth of Water Table: Peizometer
• Depth of Sea/Water: Fathometer