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1 Introduction
Climate changes will affect the entire Earth in the 21st century. Temperature rise is expected
to be greatest in high latitude regions, even up to 4.5 times the global mean (IPCC WG 1
report, 2013; Holland and Bitz, 2003). One of the reasons for this are changes in albedo near
the poles which drops with decreasing snow and ice
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of geothermal meltwater in the form of minor floods in glacial rivers from Mýrdalsjökull.Overall, the elevated seismicity appeared to be in decline until 29 August, when two magnitude ~4.5 earthquakes occurred in the north-east part of the caldera. These earthquakes are significant as they are the largest in Katla since 1977. The ensuing swarm produced over 100 earthquakes, the largest of which
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