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Main Title A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming /
Author Edwards, Paul N.
Publisher MIT Press,
Year Published 2010
OCLC Number 430736496
ISBN 9780262013925; 0262013924; 9780262518635; 0262518635
Subjects Weather forecasting ; Climatology--History ; Meteorology--History ; Climatology--Technological innovations ; Global temperature changes ; Changement climatique ; Météorologie ; Contrãole météorologique ; Climatologie ; Histoire ; Innovations technologiques ; Klimaänderung--(DE-588)4164199-1 ; Klimaschutz--(DE-588)7547705-1 ; Computersimulation--(DE-588)4148259-1 ; Klimawandel--Forschung ; Klimawandel--Modell ; Meteorologie--Statistik ; Klimatologie--Geschichte ; Computersimulation--Klimatologie ; Klimatologie--Computersimulation ; Erwärmung (Meteorologie) ; Klimatfèorändringar ; Klimatologi--historia ; Meteorologi--historia ; Temperaturfèorändringar ; Väderleksprognoser
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ERAM  QC995 .E296 2010 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 02/22/2011
Collation xxvii, 518 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-507) and index.
Contents Notes
Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the Ršeau 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. Edwards argues that all our knowledge about climate change comes from three kinds of computer models: simulation models of weather and climate; reanalysis models, which recreate climate history from historical weather data; and data models, used to combine and adjust measurements from many different sources.