This article assesses current possibilities in Poland where the forecasting of tornadoes is concerned. The A. reviews the literature related to tornado genesis, and the climatology of these phenomena in Poland. On the basis of current scientific
. The analysis shows that operational tornado forecasting in Poland takes place at the second and third levels, but that the accuracy and reliability of predictions and warnings is relatively low at this stage. – (BJ)
Progress of rehabilitation of large housing estates in Katowice (Poland)
Block of flats ; Housing ; Housing estate ; Katowice ; Poland ; Quality of life ; Rehabilitation ; Social polarization ; Upper Silesia ; Urban geography
The aim of the study is to present the recent rehabilitation progress of large housing estates through the example of three case study estates from Katowice – the historical centre of the Upper Silesian industrial agglomeration in Poland. Through
The aim of the paper is to describe the determination of the intensity of karst dissolution in a small ungauged catchment in the Góry Złote Mountains in the Sudety mountain range (SW Poland). In the study area, the marble interbed is surrounded
The role of blocks of dead ice in the deposition of late glacial sediments in a large valley : A case study from the Vistula river valley in the Grudziądz basin, north Poland
Application of the UTCI to the local bioclimate of Poland's Ziemia Kłodzka region
Bioclimatology ; Climatic index ; Forest ; Geographical information system ; Human bioclimatology ; Plant cover ; Poland ; Spatial analysis ; Sudety ; Temperature ; Weather type
This paper presents the spatial differentiation to biothermal conditions in the Ziemia Kłodzka region of Poland, the basis for the assessment being the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), with spatial analysis relating to maps made using a GIS
The occurrence of atmospheric thaw in Poland over the last 50 years
Air temperature ; Atmospheric circulation ; Climatic data ; Climatic variability ; Climatology ; Interannual variability ; Poland ; Seasonal variability ; Spatial distribution ; Thawing
The study is concerned with the temporal and spatial characterisation of atmospheric thaw variability in Poland. The phenomenon was described on the basis of mean daily values of air temperature for the winter months October-March over the period
are a constant element of the climate in Poland and occur with a frequency of 30-45% of the calendar winter (December-February) and 30% to almost 50% of the period of the thermic winter. Thaws are most common in the western part of Poland, particularly
Countryside ; Demographic change ; Development ; Energy source ; Environmental change ; Globalization ; Impact ; Localism ; Poland ; Rural area ; Rural society ; Technological innovation ; Twenty-first century
The study identified the most important trends affecting the future picture of rural areas in Poland. These included: globalization, localism, demographic polarization, transformation of the natural environment, diversification of energy sources
, growth of information and knowledge-based society. The picture of Poland’s rural areas in about forty years probably will not witness any radical changes but a thesis could be formed here, that it will be more diverse, more active and more attractive
Comparative study ; Czech Republic ; Europe ; Firm ; Poland ; Privatisation ; Professional organization ; Property right ; Road transport ; Slovak Republic ; Transport
and the former Czechoslovakia, before characterising the ownership-change process involving PKS in Poland, with particular account being taken of changes over the last three years. A second part scheduled to appear in Przegląd Geograficzny, 2013, 85, 4 will turn
Reconstruction of the organisational and ownership changes that have affected the national road-carrier enterprises in Poland (PKS), Czech Republic and Slovakia (ČSAD), post 1989. While the situation at the outset was similar in these cases
, the transformations in fact assumed different forms, this ensuring that the varying present-day situations in the three countries. The first part included in this volume discusses the basic directions taken by the privatisations of the enterprises in Poland
Demographic change ; Demographic decline ; Depopulation ; Environment ; Impact ; Land use ; Landscape ; Poland ; Regional geography ; Socio-economic system ; Sudety ; Village
The A. presents the contemporary state of villages in Poland’s Kłodzko region that were highly or totally depopulated in the post-War period. The rate of depopulation, curtailment of the settlement network and present socio-economic developments
Applied geography ; Development ; Forecast ; Human geography ; National school ; Physical geography ; Poland ; Practice of geography ; Professional organization ; Teaching of geography
This article identifies the most important factors shaping the future of geography in Poland where the investigative, organisational, educational and practical spheres are concerned. The issues raised and discussed are used as a basis
Internal migration ; Mazovia ; Poland ; Regional development ; Suburbanization ; Town ; Urban dynamics ; Urban fringe ; Warsaw ; Young people
This article addresses an issue of major importance to the development of every municipality, i.e. the migration plans of young people seeking to start households of their own. Piaseczno in Poland may serve as an example of a municipality located
Cracow ; Geography ; History of geography ; History of sciences ; Institution ; Little Poland ; Nineteenth Century ; Poland ; Scientific knowledge ; Twentieth Century
Countryside ; Forecast ; Globalization ; Impact ; Localism ; Poland ; Regional development ; Rural area ; Scenario ; Technological innovation ; Twenty-first century
in this development. The A. identified the most important of the so-called megatrends affecting the future picture of Poland. These included : globalization, expansion of new economic powers, localism, demographic polarization, transformation of the natural