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A vast machine [electronic resource] : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / Paul N. Edwards.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.Description: xxvii, 518 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 551.63 22
LOC classification:
  • QC995 .E296 2010
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Contents:
Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the R�eseau 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.
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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 R�eseau 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.

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