A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / / Paul N. Edwards.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxvii, 518 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Thinking globally
- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere
- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the Reseau 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.