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

Creator

Edwards, Paul N.

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

Date

c2010.

Format

xxvii, 518 p. :ill., maps; 24 cm.

Description

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.

Subject

Weather forecasting
Climatology
Meteorology
Climatology
Global temperature changes

Source

J16-032

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

ISBN 9780262013925
ISBN 0262013924