of Austari-Jökulsá, vhm 144, was selected for studying because of its
extensive glacier cover (10%). The area of the watershed is
1024 km2 and it has had an
average annual discharge of about 39 m3/s for the last 37 years (Icelandic Meteorological
Office, 2010a). The watershed is situated in the central highland and is highly elevated for an
Icelandic watershed, the elevation profile
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