Summary Information
David Hewitt Miller Papers 1946-2006
- Miller, David Hewitt, 1918-2006
UWM Manuscript Collection 159; Accession 2010-019
- 6.2 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
- plus additions of .2 cubic ft. (1 box)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
The collection contains the personal papers of David Hewitt
Miller, emeritus professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The papers include Miller's doctoral thesis, research conducted during
his tenure with the Cooperative Snow Investigations, and drafts of conference presentations
and published articles. The collection also contains Miller's extensive collection of
scholarly articles on a wide variety of subjects in the geosciences. English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
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Biography/History
David Hewitt Miller was born in Russell, Kansas in 1918. He received his bachelor of arts
from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1939. From 1939 to 1940, he was Research
Fellow in Geography and Climatology at UCLA; from 1941-1943, Junior Meteorologist and
Assistant Meteorologist with the United States Army Corp of Engineers, San Francisco and
Salt Lake City District Offices; in 1943, Senior Instructor in Meteorology and Geography at
the Air Transport Command School in Kansas City, Missouri; and from 1943-1944, Senior
Forecaster, Western Division of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. in Burbank,
California. In 1944, Miller received his master of arts degree from UCLA.
From 1944-1946, he worked in the Research and Development Branch of the Office of the
Quartermaster General in Washington, D.C. as a geographer, meteorologist, and climatologist.
From 1946-1950, Miller was Assistant Chief at the Processing and Analysis Unit of the
Cooperative Snow Investigations, Corps of Engineers and Weather Bureau. From 1950 to 1952,
he worked as Assistant Director of the Snow Investigations, also with the Corps of
Engineers. From 1952 to 1953, Miller was a research fellow of the National Science
Foundation at the University of California-Los Angeles. While serving in these professional
capacities, Miller attended the graduate program in geography at the University of
California-Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. in 1953.
Miller has published extensively on a wide variety of topics within the geosciences. In
1955, the University of California Press published his dissertation, Snow Cover and Climate in the Sierra Nevada, California. Other monographs include
A Survey Course: The Energy and Mass Budget at the Surface of the
Earth (1968), Water at the Surface of the Earth: An
Introduction to Ecosystem Hydrodynamics (1977), and Energy
at the Surface of the Earth: An Introduction to the Energetics of Ecosystems
(1981).
Miller taught seminars and courses in hydrology, physical geography, climatology, and
meteorology at the University of Georgia (1958), the University of California (1961), the
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1962), the University of Hawaii (1970), and the University
of Newcastle, Australia (1966, 1972, 1979). His full-time academic career began in 1964 with
an appointment as professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Department of Geography (now the Department of Geosciences). He served on numerous
professional committees and boards including those of the American Meteorological Society,
the Association of American Geographers, the International Geographical Union, and the
American Geophysical Union.
Miller received numerous honorary awards including membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma
XI, fellowships from the National Science Foundation, a National Academy of Sciences
exchange scientist award, two Fulbright fellowships, and an honorary degree from the
University of Newcastle, Australia. Miller died in 2006.
Scope and Content Note
The majority of the collection consists of scholarly articles collected by Miller on a wide
variety of subjects in the geosciences. Some of these are signed presentation copies.
The personal papers include the dissertation and several unpublished essays written by
Miller during his graduate studies at the University of California-Los Angeles in the 1950s.
The papers also document Miller's tenure with the Cooperative Snow Investigations (SI), a
joint venture of the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Civil Works Division of the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers. The program was initiated in 1945 to develop methods of forecasting seasonal
and short-term stream flow resulting from snowmelt or combined snowmelt and rain. The
results of the snow investigations were used in the design of flood-control structures and
the spillways of all types of dams, to improve flood-warning systems, and to control
allocation of industrial, municipal, power and irrigation water resources. To accomplish its
objectives, the SI established three field research laboratories: the Central Sierra Snow
Laboratory (California), the Upper Columbia Snow Laboratory (Montana), and the Willamette
Basin Snow Laboratory (Oregon). Of these three, Miller was most familiar with the Central
Sierra Snow Laboratory. Assessing the importance of the program, one scholar writes that
many of the "the fundamentals of snow physics and hydrology were developed during the
Cooperative Snow Investigations of 1945-1952, largely at CSSL . . . Since then, most snow
research has been building on those fundamentals and refining some of the details." The
results of research conducted by the SI are published in Snow
Hydrology: Summary Report of the Snow Investigations and various technical
reports.
Miller's academic career is documented by drafts of numerous published articles and
conference presentations, and by a file of course handouts. His tenure at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee is documented primarily in a file of course materials.
Arrangement of the Materials
This collection was received in, and is organized in, multiple parts. Additional materials
have not been physically or intellectually arranged and interfiled, and researchers may need
to consult more than one part of the collection to locate similar materials.
The personal papers are organized alphabetically by subject. Whenever possible, the
processing archivists used the subject headings originally assigned by Miller.
The collection contains many articles written by others and collected by Miller. These were
originally published in scholarly journals, government documents, and conference
proceedings; they are written in English, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Japanese, and
various Scandinavian languages. Although the processing archivists arranged some articles by
subject (e.g., "Articles, San Dimas Experimental Forest, California"), most are arranged by
national language (e.g., "Articles, Misc., Russian"). The majority of the articles are
written in English. These are arranged alphabetically at the folder-level to facilitate
access (e.g., "Articles, Misc., English, A-D").
The collection contains one additional accession.
Preferred Citation
Citation Guide for
Primary Sources
Separated Material in the UWM Libraries
When accessioned, the collection contained many English- and foreign-language books and
serials not authored by Miller. At the time of processing, they were physically separated
from the archival collection and added to the general collection of the library. The
bibliographic record of each item contains a note stating "From the collection of David H.
Miller."
Administrative/Restriction Information
There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all
members of the public in accordance with state law.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel,
privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin
Statutes 19.21-19.39).
David Hewitt Miller donated the collection to the Archives in June 2000. Jon Kahl donated
additional materials in October 2010 (accession 2010-019).
Michael Doylen and Amy Schindler processed the collection at the Archives in August
2000. Hayley Jackson updated the finding aid to include information about accession
2010-019 in August 2013.
Contents List
UWM Manuscript Collection 159
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Records, 1946-1982 6.2 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
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Articles
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Box
1
Folder
1-3
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Albedo, undated
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Box
1
Folder
4-5
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Australia, undated
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Box
1
Folder
6
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Cloud Seeding, undated
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Box
1
Folder
7
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Contact Zone, undated
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Box
1
Folder
8
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Erosion, undated
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Box
1
Folder
9
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Evaporation, undated
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Box
1
Folder
10
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Floods, undated
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Box
1
Folder
11
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Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado, undated
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Box
1
Folder
12
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General Circulation Model, undated
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Box
1
Folder
13
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Glaciers, undated
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Box
1
Folder
14
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Greenland, undated
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Box
1
Folder
15
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Ice and Snow Cover, undated
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Box
1
Folder
16
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Infiltration, undated
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Box
1
Folder
17
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Instruments, undated
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Box
1
Folder
18
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Interception, undated
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Box
1
Folder
19
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Measurement, undated
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Box
1
Folder
20
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Midwestern and Lake Effect Storms, undated
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Miscellaneous
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Box
1
Folder
21-27
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English, A-D, undated
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Box
2
Folder
1-21
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English, E-R, undated
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Box
3
Folder
1-10
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English, S-Z, undated
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Box
3
Folder
11-13
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French, undated
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Box
3
Folder
14-20
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German, undated
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Box
4
Folder
1-3
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German, undated
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Box
4
Folder
4-6
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Japanese, undated
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Box
4
Folder
7-19
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Russian, undated
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Box
5
Folder
1
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Russian, undated
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Box
5
Folder
2-3
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Scandinavian, undated
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Box
5
Folder
4-5
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Spanish, undated
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Box
5
Folder
6
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New England, undated
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Box
5
Folder
7
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Predictions, undated
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Box
5
Folder
8
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Radiation, undated
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Box
5
Folder
9-10
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San Dimas Experimental Forest, California, undated
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Box
5
Folder
11
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Snow Accumulation, undated
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Box
5
Folder
12
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Snow Cover, undated
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Box
5
Folder
13
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Snowmelt, undated
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Box
5
Folder
14
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Southwest U.S.A., undated
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Box
5
Folder
15
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Spring Snowmelt Flood, 1969
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Box
5
Folder
16
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Switzerland, undated
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Box
5
Folder
17
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Terrain, undated
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Box
5
Folder
18
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Vegetation, undated
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Box
5
Folder
19
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Watersheds, undated
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Central Sierra Snow Laboratory
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Box
5
Folder
20
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Diurnal Variations, 1970
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Box
5
Folder
21
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Example of Spatial Variation, 1974
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Box
5
Folder
22
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Hydrology of a Headwaters Basin, 1965, 1972, 1990
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Box
5
Folder
23
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Maps, undated
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Box
5
Folder
24
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Miscellaneous, undated
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Box
5
Folder
25
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Sierra Climate, undated
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Box
5
Folder
26
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Temperature and Wind Worksheets, undated
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Box
5
Folder
27
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Temperatures, undated
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Cooperative Snow Investigations
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Box
5
Folder
28
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Landscapes, undated
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Box
5
Folder
29-31
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Miscellaneous, 1946-1950
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Box
5
Folder
32
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Program Description, 1948, 1982
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Box
5
Folder
33-34
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Dissertation, "Snow Cover and Climate in the Sierra Nevada, California,"
1953
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Box
5
Folder
35
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Environmental Protection Division, Special Report #62, "An Analysis of the
Environment of the Inland Ice of Greenland," 1954
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Box
5
Folder
36
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Graduate Work, 1951-1952
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Box
5
Folder
37
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Miscellaneous, 1953
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Box
5
Folder
38
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Reviews of Snow Cover and Climate in the Sierra
Nevada, California by David H. Miller, 1956-1958
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Box
5
Folder
39
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Reviews of Water at the Surface of the Earth
by David H. Miller, 1977, 1979, 1983
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Box
5
Folder
40
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San Francisco Engineer District, Storm Studies, 1938-1942
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Box
6
Folder
1
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Snow Bibliographies, 1940-1949
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Box
6
Folder
2
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Snow Cover and Snowmelt Runoff Research, 1952-1953
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Box
6
Folder
3
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Snow Hydrology, drawings, 1947-1954
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Box
6
Folder
4
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Snow Investigations [Program], Miscellaneous, 1950-1952
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Box
6
Folder
5
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Snow-Forest Research, 1960-1964
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Subject Files
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Box
6
Folder
6
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Aerial Surveys of Snow Cover, 1959
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Box
6
Folder
7
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Albedo, AMS Presentation, 1951
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Box
6
Folder
8
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Albedo, AMS Presentation, undated
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Box
6
Folder
9
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Albedo, Buried, undated
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Box
6
Folder
10
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Albedo, Diagrams, undated
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Box
6
Folder
11
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Albedo, Post-Storm, undated
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Box
6
Folder
12
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Albedo, Summaries, 1946-1951
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Box
6
Folder
13
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Albedo Study, Final Data, 1937-1938
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Box
6
Folder
14
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Albedo Unburied Layers, 1950
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Box
6
Folder
15
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Analysis of 1948 Runoff Season, Skyland Creek, UCSL, 1948
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Box
6
Folder
16
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C. Spring Albedo, Thesis Study, 1953
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Box
6
Folder
17
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CSSL Terrain, 1972, 1984, 1990
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Box
6
Folder
18
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Estimating Insulation, 1950
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Box
6
Folder
19
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GRD Seminar, Albedo, 1956
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Box
6
Folder
20
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Heat Balance Albedo, 1951-1952
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Box
6
Folder
21
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Snow Hydrology, undated
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Box
6
Folder
22
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"Influence of Snow Cover," AMS Presentation, 1954
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Box
6
Folder
23
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Lab Comparisons for SIPRE, undated
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Box
6
Folder
24
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Sierra Flood, 1950
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Box
6
Folder
25
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Sierra Snowfall Augmentation, 1973
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Box
6
Folder
26
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Sierra Topography, 1951
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Box
6
Folder
27
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"Toward a Climatology of Incoming Longwave Radiation," AAG Presentation,
1977
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Box
6
Folder
28
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Watanabe, 1965
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Box
6
Folder
29
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500 MB. Flow, 1950, 1953
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Box
6
Folder
30
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University of Newcastle, New South Wales, 1979
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Box
6
Folder
31
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Correspondence, 1982
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Box
6
Folder
32
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Course Handouts, 1955, 1974-1976, 1982-1983, 1990
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Writings
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Box
6
Folder
33
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Conference Presentations, 1961-1962
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Box
6
Folder
34-37
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Drafts, 1950-1974
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Box
6
Folder
38
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Published Articles, 1956-1964, undated
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Box
6
Folder
39-40
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Snow Interception MSS, 1960s
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Box
7
Folder
1
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Snow Interception MSS, 1960s
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Box
7
Folder
2
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Snow Interception Notes, undated
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Accession 2010-019
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Biographical Information and Papers, 1956-2006 Additional materials, dating from 1956 to 2006, largely consisting of
biographical information, including obituary and funeral materials. Also included are
copies and reprints of articles, and part of a typescript. .2 cubic ft. (1 box)
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