DOI: 10.1002/wcc.349
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84939612665
论文题名: Ways of knowing climate: Hubert H. Lamb and climate research in the UK
作者: Martin-Nielsen J
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2015
卷: 6, 期: 5 起始页码: 465
结束页码: 477
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Climatology
; Digital computers
; Numerical methods
; Numerical models
; Climate prediction
; Climate research
; Past and present
; Through the lens
; Climate models
; academic research
; climate change
; climate prediction
; climatology
; hegemony
; instrumentation
; numerical model
; weather forecasting
; United Kingdom
英文摘要: Today, numerical modelling is widely seen as the leading method of climate research. Modelling enjoys a hegemonic status in the production of climate predictions and the discussion and policy application of climate knowledge. This dominance obscures past and present debates about which types of climate knowledge are important, which epistemic standards are used to judge that knowledge, and which applications of that knowledge are considered useful. In the existing historiography of climate research, the focus has overwhelmingly been on numerical modelling, and relatively little has been written about other ways of knowing climate. The hegemony that numerical models enjoy today is not the result of a linear 'arrow of progress,' beginning with the introduction of digital computers and leading naturally to today's situation, but rather of a more complex situation centered on changing ideas of climate, the identity of climate researchers, and the direction and scope of their work. This paper aims to shed light on these ideas by investigating and analyzing climate research debates in the 1960s and early 1970s through the lens of the English meteorologist and climatologist Hubert Horace Lamb (1913-1997). It pays particular attention to Lamb's understanding of climatology as a discipline and his assessment of that discipline through the latter half of the 20th century. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76268
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Center for Science Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Martin-Nielsen J. Ways of knowing climate: Hubert H. Lamb and climate research in the UK[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2015-01-01,6(5)