A vast machine computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming /
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 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
GBB021666 bnb
Uk
Weather forecasting.
Climatology--History.
Meteorology--History.
Climatology--Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.
Electronic books.
QC995 / .E296 2010
551.63
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 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
GBB021666 bnb
Uk
Weather forecasting.
Climatology--History.
Meteorology--History.
Climatology--Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.
Electronic books.
QC995 / .E296 2010
551.63