| Main Title |
A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / |
| Author |
Edwards, Paul N.
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| 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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Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| ERAM |
QC995 .E296 2010 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
02/22/2011 |
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| 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. |
| Place Published |
Cambridge, Mass. |
| PUB Date Free Form |
c2010 |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
2009030678 |
| Merged OCLC records |
667877558 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20110214143326 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
02184cam 2200493 a 45020 |
