Various instruments were used to measure environmental variables including a thermometer in a Stevenson screen, thermocouples connected to a data logger, a rain gauge, a rotating cup anemometer, a Kestrel 2500 hand-held weather meter, a sonic anemometer, a hygrometer, lux and light meters, and a Penman-Monteith equation requiring daily temperature, wind speed, humidity and solar radiation inputs to predict evapotranspiration. Additional instruments included a pyranometer, Campbell-Stoke Sunshine recorder, and Accupar to measure factors like solar radiation, sunshine, and photosynthetically active radiation.