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Author Edwards, Paul N.

Title A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / Paul N. Edwards
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description xxvii, 518 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Weather forecasting.
Climatology -- History.
Meteorology -- History.
Climatology -- Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.
LC no. 2009030678
ISBN 9780262013925 hardcover alkaline paper
0262013924 hardcover alkaline paper