A vast machine computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming

• Main Author: Edwards, Paul N.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
• Subjects: Weather forecasting.; Climatology > History.; Meteorology > History.; Climatology > Technological innovations.; Global temperature changes.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780262294102
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xxvii, 518 p.) : ill., maps.

Table of Contents:

• Thinking globally
• Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere
• Standards and networks : international meteorology and the Râeseau 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.