| Description |
xxvii, 518 p. : ill., maps. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-507) and index. |
| Contents |
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 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Weather forecasting.
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Climatology -- History.
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Meteorology -- History.
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Climatology -- Technological innovations.
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Global temperature changes.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780262013925 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0262013924 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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