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

Main Author: Edwards, Paul N.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10424687
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245 1 2 |a A vast machine  |b computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming /  |c Paul N. Edwards. 
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300 |a xxvii, 518 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-507) and index. 
505 0 |a Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the Rβeseau 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. 
650 0 |a Weather forecasting. 
650 0 |a Climatology  |x History. 
650 0 |a Meteorology  |x History. 
650 0 |a Climatology  |x Technological innovations. 
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