Screen LibraryA vast machine：computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxvii, 518 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | P46 |
| CLC: | P46 |
| Call Number: | P46/E266 |
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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 Reseau Mondial -- Climatology and climate change before World War II -- Friction -- Numerical weather predi Edwards argues that all our knowledge about climate change comes from three kinds of computer models: simulation models of weather and climate; reanalysis models, which recreate climate history from historical weather data; and data models, used to comb |