The impact of large radio telescopes on the progress of astronomical research in the past, present and future is the subject of twelve essays, of interest to both the layman and the professional astronomer. Current research in different fields and visions of what may be achieved with future observational possibilities are found next to contributions containing historical notes on Dutch radio astronomy and the scientific highlights of a quarter-century's work with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. Major upgrades in progress will soon turn the WSRT into a more powerful and significantly more versatile instrument. Looking further ahead, plans for a new-generation telescope, a Square-Kilometer- Array, promise enormous advances in many areas of astronomy, among them research on pulsars, on gas in the early universe and in cosmology.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 241 mm
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Dicke: 12 mm
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978-90-247-3309-5 (9789024733095)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-4394-0
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The relationship between inputs and outputs of nitrogen in intensive grassland systems.- The response to nitrogen fertilizer from a cut perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) pasture in the Scottish uplands relative to efficiency of fertilizer use and provision of herbage for animals.- Efficient use of fertilizer nitrogen on grass swards: effects of timing, cutting management and secondary grasses.- Nitrogen supply and the persistence of grasses.- Sources and transformations of organic nitrogen in intensively managed grassland soils.- Gaseous losses of nitrogen from grassland.- Relationships between soil mineral nitrogen content and denitrification, following application of slurry and calcium nitrate to grassland.- Losses of nitrogen from intensive grassland systems by leaching and surface runoff.- Nitrate loss through leaching and surface runoff from grassland: effects of water supply, soil type and management.
