A vast machine computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / Paul N. Edwards.
| Author/creator | Edwards, Paul N. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-507) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009030678 |
| ISBN | 9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |