Angelo Paes de Camargo, Brazilian agricultural climatologist (1917 – 30 May 2008)
Modified the Thornthwaite nomogram
Contribuição para a determinação da evapotranspiração potencial no Estado de São Paulo. Bragantia 21:163-203, 1962
Presented a new equation for estimating potential evapotranspiration (Camargo technique)
Balanço hídrico no estado de São Paulo. Boletim Inst Agron. Campinas 116, 1971
Presented climate classification maps for zoning a number of crops in countries like Brazil, Peru and China
With his son M.B.P. de Camargo defined the phenological phases of coffee plant (2001)
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With M.P. Camargo & F. Grohmann developed a simple direct-reading glassy tensiometer for determining soil moisture (1979)
Developed two kinds of nebulization for fighting frost