Rejoignez-nous pour un voyage dans le monde des livres!
Ajouter ce livre à l'électronique
Grey
Ecrivez un nouveau commentaire Default profile 50px
Grey
Abonnez-vous pour lire le livre complet ou lisez les premières pages gratuitement!
All characters reduced
Dune Formation - cover

Dune Formation

Yves Earhart

Traducteur A AI

Maison d'édition: Publifye

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Synopsis

Dune Formation explores the fascinating world of how wind shapes sand dunes in both deserts and coastal regions. This book delves into the physics of aeolian transport, examining how wind moves sediment, and investigates the environmental factors influencing dune arrangement, or morphology. These factors are critical for geomorphologists and environmental scientists aiming to understand landscape evolution.

 
The book argues that dune morphology directly results from the interplay between wind patterns, sediment supply, and surface conditions. It begins with aeolian transport principles, explaining how wind speed and grain size affect sand movement. From there, it examines different dune types, such as crescentic barchans and linear seifs, detailing the conditions that dictate their appearance and development.

 
The book emphasizes the role of vegetation, moisture, and topography in modifying wind flow and sediment deposition. This unique approach makes Dune Formation a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals in geography, geology, and environmental science. By integrating field observations, experiments, and computational models, the book provides a detailed understanding of the complex processes shaping our planet's surface, offering insights into past climates recorded in paleodunes and helping to address current environmental challenges like desertification and coastal erosion.
Disponible depuis: 12/02/2025.
Longueur d'impression: 67 pages.

D'autres livres qui pourraient vous intéresser

  • MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Implementing ML and AI (2023 Beginner Crash Course) - cover

    MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL...

    Carl Dennis

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of the most popular and rapidly evolving fields in the technology industry. From self-driving cars and personalized recommendation systems to speech recognition and medical diagnosis, ML and AI are transforming the way we live and work. 
    In this book, you'll learn about the fundamental concepts and practical applications of ML and AI. You'll discover how to build, train, and deploy intelligent systems using popular programming languages and frameworks such as Python, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. 
    Here are some of the topics covered in the book:The basics of ML and AI, including supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and neural networksData preprocessing, feature selection, and dimensionality reduction techniquesModel selection, evaluation, and optimizationComputer vision and image recognitionNatural language processing (NLP) and text analysisReinforcement learning and game theoryEthical considerations and potential biases in AI\ 
    And Much More!... 
    Whether you're a beginner or an experienced programmer, this book will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to start building intelligent systems with confidence. 
    So, dive into the exciting world of ML and AI and unlock the potential of these cutting-edge technologies! 
     
    Voir livre
  • US Army 1960s Polygraph Training - cover

    US Army 1960s Polygraph Training

    US Army

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The primary mission of military intelligence in the United States Army is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence and electronic warfare support to tactical, operational and strategic-level commanders. The Army’s intelligence components produce intelligence both for Army use and for sharing across the national intelligence community. The military will subject someone to a polygraph for several reasons: If that person needs to access confidential files; if they are accused of leaking government secrets; if they are accused of terrorism or of being a spy; if they are a foreign national who needs access to classified material, and several other reasons. The following is a 1960s Army training recording with information on administering a lie detector test.
    Voir livre
  • Magnet Social Media Followers - cover

    Magnet Social Media Followers

    Daniel Monroe

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Magnet Social Media Followers: The Comprehensive Guide on How to Achieve Massive Followers on Your Social MediaAs a businessman yourself, social media sites might have also caught your attention. And if you are seeking ways on how to use these social media sites to boost your business, you came to the right place.In this eBook, you will find tips and guides on how you can make use of these social media sites as effective business tools. If used correctly, they have the potential of increasing your sales.For the most part though, this eBook will concentrate on how to make your social media account popular to users (how to get more views, more likes, more subscribers, more viewers).This is because a social media account will serve its purpose as a business tool only if it manages to get views, likes and subscribers.So without further ado, we present to you the simple guide to making your social media page a superstar!In this audiobook, you will learn The Comprehensive Guide on How to Achieve Massive Followers on Your Social Media! So what are you waiting for, download a copy of Magnet Social Media Followers today!
    Voir livre
  • Sea of Troubles - The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War - cover

    Sea of Troubles - The European...

    Ian Rutledge

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, and its territories occupied by European powers. Sea of Troubles is the definitive account of the European conquest of the Levant and North Africa over three centuries. Ian Rutledge reveals the intense imperial rivalry between six European powers - Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia - who all jostled for control of the trade, lands and wealth of the Islamic Mediterranean. The competition between these states made their conquest a far more difficult and extended task than they encountered elsewhere in the world. Yet, as new contenders entered the contest, and as rivalries intensified in the early twentieth century, events would spiral out of control as the continent headed towards the First World War.
    Voir livre
  • Natural Language Processing for Beginners - Comprehensive Introduction to Language and Technology - cover

    Natural Language Processing for...

    Steve Abrams

    • 0
    • 1
    • 0
    Dive into the fascinating world of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with "Natural Language Processing for Beginners: Comprehensive Introduction to Language and Technology," a thorough and accessible guide designed to introduce beginners to the rich field of NLP and its myriad applications. This book serves as a bridge between theoretical concepts and practical applications, offering readers a solid foundation in both the linguistic and computational aspects of NLP. 
    Starting with a clear explanation of what NLP is and its significance in today's digital age, the book covers essential linguistic principles and computational techniques. Readers will learn about the historical evolution of NLP, key components like syntax, semantics, and machine learning algorithms that enable computers to understand and generate human language. The guide simplifies complex ideas such as tokenization, neural networks, and deep learning, making them accessible to those without a background in computer science or linguistics. 
    Practicality is at the heart of this book, which includes step-by-step tutorials on using popular NLP libraries such as NLTK, SpaCy, and frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. These tools are illustrated through exciting projects like building a sentiment analyzer, developing a conversational chatbot, and creating a multilingual translator. 
    "Natural Language Processing for Beginners" also addresses contemporary challenges and ethical considerations in NLP, discussing bias, fairness, and the future potential of NLP technology. Whether you are a student, a budding data scientist, or a curious tech enthusiast, this book will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to start your journey into NLP, opening the door to a world of possibilities where language and technology meet. 
     
    Voir livre
  • Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence - AI Quantum Computing and Post-Human Thought - cover

    Quantum Computing and Artificial...

    Martin K. Ettington

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Intelligence is the most powerful force ever to emerge in the universe. 
    Today, intelligence is undergoing its most radical transformation since the emergence of the human mind. 
    Artificial intelligence has moved from theory into daily life. Algorithms now diagnose disease, generate art, predict markets, and converse with humans in natural language. Yet beneath these achievements lies a deeper truth: most contemporary AI remains constrained by the limits of classical computation. It excels at pattern recognition but struggles with genuine understanding, intuition, and creativity. It scales, but it does not truly think. 
    At the same time, a second revolution is quietly unfolding—one that challenges our deepest assumptions about computation itself. Quantum computing does not merely make calculations faster; it operates on principles fundamentally different from classical logic. Superposition, entanglement, and probabilistic collapse allow quantum systems to explore vast landscapes of possibilities simultaneously. These machines do not step through solutions one at a time—they sample reality in a way that resembles intuition more than calculation. 
    When artificial intelligence and quantum computing converge, intelligence itself changes form. 
    This book explores that convergence—and the consequences that follow.
    Voir livre