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Charles Warren Thornthwaite Papers, 1926-1995
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Papers of Charles Warren Thornthwaite, a geographer and climatologist. Thornthwaite worked as a professor at various universities and also established the Laboratory of Climatology and C.W. Thornth...
Papers of Charles Warren Thornthwaite, a geographer and climatologist. Thornthwaite worked as a professor at various universities and also established the Laboratory of Climatology and C.W. Thornthwaite Associates, as independent research and consulting institutions. Collection contains correspondence, reports, reprints, and writings.
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- 6.5 cubic ft. (23 boxes)
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- Charles Warren Thornthwaite was born in Bay City, Michigan on March 7, 1899. He attended Central Michigan University, earning an A.B. in 1922 and earned his Ph.D. in geography with Carl Sauer from the University of California, Berkeley in 1929. Thornthwaite then got a job as a geographer with the Kentucky Geological Survey from 1926-1930 and as a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma from 1927-1934. In 1935, Thornthwaite became chief of the Climatic and Physiographic Division of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. It was during this time that Thornthwaite focused on climatology and performed his investigations on evapotranspiration. Thornthwaite died on June 11, 1963.