A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming - Edwards, Paul N. (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-507) and index.
Keywords: Weather forecasting; Climatology -- History; Meteorology -- History; Climatology -- Technological innovations; Global temperature changes