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A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Paul N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Weather forecasting.
Climatology > History.
Meteorology > History.
Climatology > Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.
Table of 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.