A vast machine : (Record no. 39437)
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| control field | 6267526 |
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| control field | IEEE |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20190220121648.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 151223s2010 mauab ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262294102 |
| Qualifying information | electronic |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 0262294109 |
| Qualifying information | electronic |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780262518635 |
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| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (CaBNVSL)mat06267526 |
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| System control number | (IDAMS)0b000064818b456e |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | CaBNVSL |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | CaBNVSL |
| Modifying agency | CaBNVSL |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QC995 |
| Item number | .E296 2010eb |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 551.63 |
| Edition number | 22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Edwards, Paul N., |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A vast machine : |
| Remainder of title | computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Paul N. Edwards. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | MIT Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | c2010. |
| 264 #2 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | IEEE Xplore, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2010] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 PDF (xxvii, 518 pages) : |
| Other physical details | illustrations, maps. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | electronic |
| Source | isbdmedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Academic Complete Subscription 2011-2012 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | ""Multi-User"" |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-507) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Thinking globally -- Global space, universal time : seeing the planetary atmosphere -- Standards and networks : international meteorology and the R�eseau 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. |
| 506 1# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, "sound science." In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has news for these doubters: without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals or observations--even from satellites, which can "see" the whole planet with a single instrument--becomes global in time and space without passing through a series of data models. Everything we know about the world's climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere--to measure it, trace its past, and model its future. 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. Meteorology creates knowledge through an infrastructure (weather stations and other data platforms) that covers the whole world, making global data. This infrastructure generates information so vast in quantity and so diverse in quality and form that it can be understood only by computer analysis--making data global. Edwards describes the science behind the scientific consensus on climate change, arguing that over the years data and models have converged to create a stable, reliable, and trustworthy basis for the reality of global warming. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE | |
| Additional physical form available note | Also available in print. |
| 538 ## - SYSTEM DETAILS NOTE | |
| System details note | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Weather forecasting. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Climatology |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Meteorology |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Climatology |
| General subdivision | Technological innovations. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Global temperature changes. |
| 655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | IEEE Xplore (Online Service), |
| Relator term | distributor. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | MIT Press, |
| Relator term | publisher. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262518635 |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Abstract with links to resource |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267526 |
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