Edwards, Paul N.

A vast machine computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / [electronic resource] : Paul N. Edwards. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. - xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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GBB021666 bnb

Uk


Weather forecasting.
Climatology--History.
Meteorology--History.
Climatology--Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.


Electronic books.

QC995 / .E296 2010eb

551.63