and Ufsarlón) are in the
northern part of Vatnajökull, and it can be seen from Table 2 that those catchments have a
mean starting date later in the year (respectively 22/05 and 18/05) than the catchments in
southwest-Iceland.
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Figure 7 – Evolution of the beginning date of the melt season in four catchments for the
period 1979 – 2017. Results were obtained using an automatic filter
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