I am very grateful to Dr. László Haszpra, the principal investigator and organizer of the whole project. Without his super effort the whole project could not have been established. Thanks for the discussions and for the help with regards the data, the data processing, the interpretation of the data, the calculations, etc. I would like to thank the Department of Meteorology for the computing support and for the chance to stay at the Department working on my Ph.D. dissertation. Special thanks to Dr. Judit Bartholy for her motivation and for her advices. I am also very grateful to my supervisor, Dr. Tamás Weidinger for his support.
Special thanks to Dr. Ken Davis for the IDL code he provided and kick-started me in the work, and also for the hospitality in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Thanks to Dr. Brad Berger for his technical help and also for his hospitality. Thanks for the valuable discussions in the USA and in Hungary.
Special thanks to the CO
group in Japan, for the extremely kind hospitality
of Dr. Yamamoto, for the discussions with Dr. Saigusa and Dr. Kondo. Thanks
for sending me very important papers in various topics.
Special thanks to John Kert for the valuable technical english usage corrections.
I'm very garteful to my family, and to my girlfriend for her support, patience and motivation.
Use of the tower and transmitter building is kindly provided by Antenna Hungária
Corporation. The project was supported by the U.S.-Hungarian Scientific and
Technological Joint Fund (J. F. no. 162 [1992-1995] and J. F. no. 504 [1996-1999]),
by the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA T7282 [1993-1996],
OTKA T23811 [1997-2000], OTKA F026642 [1998-2001], OTKA T32440 [2001-2004]),
by the Hungarian Higher Education Support Program
(FKFP-0168/1997), by the Agency
of Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), and by the Bilateral Intergovernmental
S&T Cooperation (OMFB, Hungary).