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

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...

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Main Author: Edwards, Paul N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2013.
Edition:First MIT Press paperback edition.
Series:Infrastructures series.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 518 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Weather forecasting.
Climatology -- History.
Meteorology -- History.
Climatology -- Computer simulation.
Climatology -- Technological innovations.
Global temperature changes.
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