The world in a machine
Subtitle: computer models, data networks, and global atmospheric politics
By: Paul N. Edwards.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780262013925
Subjects: Weather forecasting; Climatology -- History; Meteorology -- History; Climatology -- Technological innovation; Global temperature changes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking globally; title: Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere; title: Standards and networks: international meteorology and the Réseau Mondial; title: Climatology and climate change before World War II; title: Friction; title: Numerical weather prediction; title: The infinite forecast; title: Making global data; title: The first WWW; title: Making data global; title: Data wars; title: Reanalysis : the do-over; title: Para-metrics and the limits of knowledge; title: Simulation models and atmospheric politics 1960-1992; title: Signal and noise : consensus, controversy, and climate change.