Entrée principale:

Edwards, Paul N.

Titre et auteur:

A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming.

Édition:

First MIT Press paperback edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2013.

Description:

518 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Série(s):

Infrastructures series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Résumé:

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 combine and adjust measurements from many different sources.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Summary
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Summary

ISBN:

0262518635 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780262518635 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Sujet:

Weather forecasting.
Climatology History.
Meteorology History.
Climatology Computer simulation.
Climatology Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.
Temps (Météorologie) Prévision.
Météorologie Histoire.
Température atmosphérique Modification à l'échelle planétaire.
Meteorology.
Climatology.
Klima
Klimaänderung
Erwärmung
Computersimulation

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Infrastructures series.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 292810
Cote: BIB 237320
Statut: Disponible