A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming /
by Edwards, Paul N.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010Description: xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Weather forecasting | Climatology -- History | Meteorology -- History | Climatology -- Technological innovations | Global temperature changes
Contents:
Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the Réseau Mondial -- Climatology and climate change before World War II -- Friction -- Numerical weather prediction -- The infinite forecast -- Making global data -- The first WWW -- Making data global -- Data wars -- Reanalysis : the do-over -- Parametrics and the limits of knowledge -- Simulation models and atmospheric politics, 1960-1992 -- Signal and noise : consensus, controversy, and climate change.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-507) and index.
Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the Réseau Mondial -- Climatology and climate change before World War II -- Friction -- Numerical weather prediction -- The infinite forecast -- Making global data -- The first WWW -- Making data global -- Data wars -- Reanalysis : the do-over -- Parametrics and the limits of knowledge -- Simulation models and atmospheric politics, 1960-1992 -- Signal and noise : consensus, controversy, and climate change.
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