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A Vast Machine : Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming.

By: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010Description: xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC995 .E296 2010
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.
Awards:
  • ASLI Choice Award
  • American Meteorological Society Louis J. Batton Authors Award, 2013
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC995 .E296 2010 1 Available 50583010336109
Total holds: 0

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

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