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xxvii, 518 p. : 24 cm, 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

Author

Edwards, Paul N.

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262294102

Subjects

Science, History, Physics

Rating

4.03 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13