A Vast Machine : Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010Description: xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- QC995 .E296 2010
- ASLI Choice Award
- American Meteorological Society Louis J. Batton Authors Award, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-507) and index.
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.
ASLI Choice Award
American Meteorological Society Louis J. Batton Authors Award, 2013