A Vast Machine : Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming.
Title:
A Vast Machine : Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming.
Author:
Edwards, Paul N.
ISBN:
9780262294102
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (547 pages)
Series:
Infrastructures Ser.
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Thinking Globally -- 2 Global Space, Universal Time : Seeing the Planetary Atmosphere -- 3 Standards and Networks: International Meteorology and the Réseau Mondial -- 4 Climatology and Climate Change before World War II -- 5 Friction -- 6 Numerical Weather Prediction -- 7 The Infinite Forecast -- 8 Making Global Data -- 9 The First WWW -- 10 Making Data Global -- 11 Data Wars -- 12 Reanalysis: The Do-Over -- 13 Parametrics and the Limits of Knowledge -- 14 Simulation Models and Atmospheric Politics, 1960-1992 -- 15 Signal and Noise: Consensus, Controversy, and Climate Change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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