Edwards, Paul N.
A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / Paul N. Edwards. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. - xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2009030678
GBB021666 bnb
015483352 Uk
Weather forecasting.
Climatology--History.
Meteorology--History.
Climatology--Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.
QC995 / .E296 2010
551.63 / EDV
QC995 / .E296 2010
A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / Paul N. Edwards. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. - xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2009030678
GBB021666 bnb
015483352 Uk
Weather forecasting.
Climatology--History.
Meteorology--History.
Climatology--Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.
QC995 / .E296 2010
551.63 / EDV
QC995 / .E296 2010