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Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE CONTENTS QUARTERLY JOURNAL KrzysztofOF THEBartoszek HUNGARIAN: The long-term METEOROLOGICAL relationships SERVICE between air flow indices and air temperature over South-East QUARTERLY JOURNAL 2018 Poland .................................................................................. 101 OF THE HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE Dalma Szinyei, Györgyi Gelybó, Alex B. Guenther, Andrew A. Turnipseed, Eszter Tóth and Peter J.H. Builtjes: Special Issue: MeteorologicalCONTENTS aspects of water management Evaluation of ozone deposition models over a subalpine forestGuest inEditors: Niwot SándorRidge, ColoradoSzalai ......................... 119 Krzysztof Bartoszek: The long-term relationships between Agnieszkaair Wypych, flow indices Zbigniew and air te mperatureUstrnul, overDanuta South-East Czekierda, AngelikaPoland ..................................................................................Palarz, and Agnieszka Sulikowska: Extreme 101 Dalmaprecipitation Szinyei, Györgyi events Gelybó,CONTENTS in theAlex PolishB. Guenther, Carpathians Andrew and Editorialtheir ............................................................................................A. synopticTurnipseed, dete Eszterrminants Tóth and .................................................. Peter J.H. Builtjes: 145I Evaluation of ozone deposition models over a JuditAttila Gerhátné J. 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Márta Birkás: Impact of 159 177 IDŐJÁRÁS Vol. 122 No. 2 Pages 101–216 Vol. IDŐJÁRÁS precipitationLilia Bocheva, andTsvetelina temperature Dimitrova, on Rosen the grainPenchev, and Ilian protein Tímeayield Kocsis ofGospodinov wheat and (Triticum, andAngéla Petio aestivumSimeonov Anda:: SevereL)Parametric varieties convective ...................or non- 31 parametric:supercells outbreakresults overof westerntime Bulgariaseries onanalyzation July 8, of INDEX 26 361 Angéla rainfallAnda,2014 Brigitta.....................................................................................at a Hungarian Simon, meteorological Gábor Soós, stationand Tamás .................... 177 203 Kucserka: Estimation of natural water body’s HU ISSN 0324-6329 Tímea Kocsis and Angéla Anda: Parametric or non- evaporationparametric: based results on ofClass time Aseries pan analyzationmeasurements of in comparisonrainfall atto a reference Hungarian meteorologicalevapotranspiration station .................... ....................... 203 41 István Ihász, Amarilla Mátrai, Balázs Szintai, Mihály SzĦcs, and Imre Bonta: Application of European numerical – weather VOL.prediction 122 *models NO. 2 for* APRIL hydrological JUNE purposes......... 2018 59 Péter Csáki, MártonVOL. Miklós122 * NO. Szinetár, 2 * APRIL András – JUNE Herceg, 2018 Péter Kalicz, and Zoltán Gribovszki: Climate Change Impacts on the Water Balance - Case Studies in Hungarian Watersheds ......................................................... 81 VOL. 122 * NO. 1 * JANUARY – MARCH 2018 IDėJÁRÁS INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS OF ID�JÁRÁS Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service The purpose of the journal is to publish units are expected, and the use of negative papers in any field of meteorology and exponent is preferred to fractional sign. atmosphere related scientific areas. 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