The world in a machine

computer models, data networks, and global atmospheric politics

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computer models, data networks, and global atmospheric politics

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Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
518

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Table of 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
Para-metrics and the limits of knowledge
Simulation models and atmospheric politics 1960-1992
Signal and noise : consensus, controversy, and climate change.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
551.63
Library of Congress
QC995 .E296 2010, QC995.E296 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
518

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23668054M
Internet Archive
vastmachinecompu0000edwa
ISBN 13
9780262013925
LCCN
2009030678
OCLC/WorldCat
430736496, 1087476661
Library Thing
9816239

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