Edwards (2010) A Vast Machine : contents

• (P) Paul N. Edwards, 2010: A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. Cambridge MA USA: MIT Press, 517 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01392-5 (hardcover), 978-0-262-51863-5 (paperback). [Masuda's memo (in Japanese)]

Detailed table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction xiii[-xxvii]
  • Climate science as a global knowledge infrastructure
  • Monitoring, modeling, and memory
  • A few words about words (and numbers)
  • How to read this book
  • What this book does not do
  • The book's history
• 1. Thinking globally 1
  • Global climate as an object of knowledge
  • Dynamics of infrastructure development
  • Weather and climate information infrastructures
  • Knowledge infrastructures
  • Infrastructural inversion
  • Meteorology as infrastructural globalism
• 2. Global space, universal time: Seeing the planetary atmosphere 27
  • Global space
  • "Data guys": The network structure of meteorology
  • Universal time
• 3. Standards and networks: International meteorology and the réseau mondial 49
  • The International Meteorological Organization
  • The Réseau Mondial
• 4. Climatology and climate change before World War II 61
  • Climatology as geography ans statistical law
  • Physical theories of global climate change
  • The "Callendar effect"
• 5. Friction 83
  • Computing the weather
  • World War I and meteorology
  • The forecast-factory
  • "The complete statistical machine"
  • From analog to digital ... and back again
  • The third dimension
  • Managing friction in forecasting and climatology
• 6. Numerical weather prediction 111
  • Weather as a weapon
  • Weather forecasting as a demonstration of digital computer power
  • The IAS meteorology project
  • The ENIAC experimental forecasts
  • Computational friction, data friction, and the ENIAC forecasts
  • Climbing the hierarchy of models
  • Operational NWP
  • Predictive skill in early NWP
  • Organizational effects of computer modeling in meteorology
• 7. The infinite forecast 139
  • How climate models work
  • The prototype: Norman Phillips's model
  • The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  • The UCLA Department of Meteorology
  • The Livermore Atmospheric Model (LAM)
  • The National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • The general circulation of circulation models
  • Climate modeling and computational friction
  • 2xCO₂: A paradigmic modeling experiment
  • Data friction, GCMs, and climate change
• 8. Making global data 187
  • Meteorology and cold war geopolitics
  • The World Meteorological Organization: Ingrastructural globalism during the cold war
  • IGY: Data sharing and technology on the cusp of the computer age
  • Nuclear weapons tests and global circulation tracers
  • The technopolitics of altitude
  • Global data infrastructures as cold war strategy
• 9. The first WWW 229
  • World Weather Watch design as technopolitics
  • Hiearchy: Planning for information overload
  • Growing an infrastructure
  • An analog-digital internetwork
  • The world according to GARP
  • The weather information infrastructure comes of age
• 10. Making data global 251
  • Automating error detection and data entry
  • Objective analysis
  • "Models almost all the way down"
  • Everything, all the time: From interpolation to 4-D data assimilation
  • The global instrument: Integrating satellites
  • From reductionism to reproductionism: Data-laden models and simulation science
  • Model-data symbiosis
  • Versions of the atmosphere: The changing meaning of "data"
• 11. Data wars 287
  • Weather data
  • Climate data
  • Fighting for the long term: Building stability into change
  • Global climate data - Plural
  • Reconstructing the climate record
  • Metadata friction
  • Proliferation within convergence: Climate data today
• 12. Reanalysis: The do-over 323
  • Gathering resources and assembling data
  • Production: Data friction, again
  • Fingerprint: Reanalysis data and climate change
  • The future of the past
• 13. Parametrics and the limits of knowledge 337
  • Types of parameterization
  • Tuning
  • Living in the semi-empirical world
  • Models vs. data: Validation, verification, or evaluation?
  • Model intercomparisons as standardized gateways
• 14. Simulation models and atmospheric politics, 1960 - 1992 357
  • Climate change as weather modification: The 1960s
  • SCEP, SMIC, and the SST
  • The Limits to Growth
  • Climate politics in the 1970s
  • Sticky numbers: Stabilizing projections of global warming
  • Nuclear winter and ozone depletion
  • Global warming as mass politics
  • The road to Rio: Climate change as world politics
  • Global models as policy tools
• 15. Signal and noise: Consensus, controversy, and climate change 397
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • The structure of climate controversies
  • The scientific integrity hearings
  • Tilting the line: The Microwave Sounding Unit
  • Models as gatewaqys in the climate knowledge infrastructure
  • Climate science on the World Wide Web
  • Controversy within consensus
• Conclusion 431
• Notes 441
• Index 509[-518]

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