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