A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / / Paul N. Edwards |
Autore | Edwards Paul N. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 551.63 |
Soggetto topico |
Weather forecasting
Climatology - History Meteorology - History Climatology - Technological innovations Global temperature changes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-89931-7
9786612899317 0-262-29410-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910260623303321 |
Edwards Paul N. | ||
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / / Paul N. Edwards |
Autore | Edwards Paul N. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 551.63 |
Soggetto topico |
Weather forecasting
Climatology - History Meteorology - History Climatology - Technological innovations Global temperature changes |
ISBN |
0-262-29071-5
1-282-89931-7 9786612899317 0-262-29410-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791681803321 |
Edwards Paul N. | ||
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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