Takes readers on a tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet. Also follows the dogged efforts of scientists to create a supercomputer model of the atmosphere and traces the surprising history of the algorithms that power their work
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Type
Bog
Sprog
engelsk
Emneord
Emnetal
55.8
Beskrivelse
Indhold: Calculation (Calculating the weather ; The forecast factories) ; Observation (The weather on earth ; Looking down ; Going around ; Blasting off) ; Simulation (The mountaintop ; The euro ; The app ; The good forecast) ; Preservation (The weather diplomats)
ISBN
9781847923400
Udgave
UK edition
Omfang
x, 207 sider
Forlag
The Bodley Head
Målgruppe
alment niveauvoksenmaterialer