a title page bearing the name(s), affiliation(s) and correspondence address(es) of the author(s) with e-mail and, if applicable;

an Abstract of no more than 100 words - a resumé of the subject, results and conclusion followed by 3-5 keywords (indexing terms);

Introduction - containing a formulation of the subject, a statement on its current stage of development and a clear definition of the aim of the paper;

Material and methods - the description must be sufficiently detailed to enable the procedure to be reproduced by other researchers;

Results - only the author's own results should be given under this heading;

Discussion - a comparison of the author's results with those of other workers, an elucidation of theoretical and logical aspects, deductions and conclusions etc.;

Acknowledgments including the grant support;

References.

Papers can additionally be submitted in electronic form (via email: air.water@imgw.pl), provided they are in MS WORD 2003 or MS WORD 97 format. The revised version must also be supplied in electronic form on a CD-ROM or via email (the MS Word file format is preferred).

Author(s) should take into account that printed and electronic versions of submitted manuscript must be identical and that the publisher can not take any responsibility for loss or damage of submitted materials, so the author(s) should keep a backup copy of the manuscript.

COMMUNICATIONS are restricted to papers describing brief but complete studies. They should not exceed five (5) printed pages in length (including figures and tables), should always begin with an abstract and should be written without subdivision into introduction, material and methods, results, discussion or acknowledgments.

TABLES should be typed on separate sheets, numbered with Arabic numerals, with a brief title above each table.

FIGURES should be printed on separate sheets, numbered with Arabic numerals, with a brief title above each figure. Figures and other illustrative material must be suitable for high-quality reproduction and fitted to A4 paper sheet. After revision all figures should be included on a CD-ROM in one of the following vector formats; WMF, EPS or CDR. In specific situations graphics as a bitmap in PNG format will be accepted. All photographs and any other scanned materials have to written in TIF or JPG format. The scanning of previously scanned materials is not accepted.

SI UNITS should be used, if necessary following commonly used units can be used: for time - minute (min), hour (h); for volume - cubic decimeter (dm3); for mass - ton (kg); for angle measures - degree (o), minute ('), second (''). The negative power should be indicated where necessary, e.g. [dm3 s-1]. Use a space between the numeral and the unit of measure, except with degree and percent (5?C, 5%).

MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS, Greek letters and parentheses, in order {[()]}, should be printed in italics. The variables in numbers and function names should be printed as a normal text. The equations should be numbered with Arabic numerals consecutively throughout the text: these numbers should be placed in parentheses by the right hand margin.

REFERENCES should be listed on a separate sheet in alphabetical order of authors' names. In the text they should be ordered by year and referred to by name and year, the year being placed in parentheses, e.g. Jones (1985) or (Jones 1985, Mueller 1990); when a work by more than two authors is referred to, the name of the first author should be followed by "et al." At the end of the text the names and initials of all authors should be given;

For references which are not in English, the original language of the article should be given in brackets at the end, e.g. (in Polish), (in German) or (in Polish with English summary), etc.

for periodicals:
the title in accordance with the World List of Scientific Periodicals, the volume and issue number, and the first and last page numbers of the paper are required, e.g.
      Lorent W. J., 1993, On the reasons of observed warming in Poland, J. Geography, 11(2), 342-359

if the cited paper is in press (only when formal acceptance has been granted!):
      Joones G.O., 2005, Tropical cyclones activity, 1951-2000, J. Paleoclimatology, 34(3): 3-17, in press

for books:
in case of complete book the publisher's name, place of publication and page numbers should be given, e.g.
      Austing N. G., 1976, Air pollution, Springer, New York, 534 pp

in case of book references with title of chapter
      Arnold D.J., 1999, Instrumental measurement of temperature in Gdańsk. [in:],
      Mataski M., Stonel F.A. (eds.), History of the instrumental meteorology, New Orlean, Springer, 238-85.

References which concern unpublished data should not be entered in the list.

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