of the World Hydrological Observing System (WHYCOS) organized by the WMO.
In recent years, Arctic nations have consolidated their cooperation in the fields of meteorology and Arctic hydrology, to increase monitoring and research on Arctic warming and into various components of the Arctic Hydrological Cycle.
The Arctic Ocean covers only 1% of the total area of the world´s oceans, but receives 10
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of the results will be finished before the end of 2013. Accurate elevation models based on these measurements will be available from Vatnajökull, Hofsjökull, Langjökull, Eiríksjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Mýrdalsjökull, Eyjafjallajökull, Drangajökull, Tungnafellsjökull and several other smaller glaciers.
A total of 11,000 km² glaciers have been mapped in this effort, but the total measured area exceeds 15,000
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event but dangerous to eye sight
19.3.2015
Tomorrow morning, Friday 20 March 2015, an almost total solar eclipse will be seen from Iceland, such as has not been seen for 61 years. And it so happens, that this time, it will occur on equinox.
Clouds may impede the view
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of the results will be finished before the end of 2013. Accurate elevation models based on these measurements will be available from Vatnajökull, Hofsjökull, Langjökull, Eiríksjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Mýrdalsjökull, Eyjafjallajökull, Drangajökull, Tungnafellsjökull and several other smaller glaciers.
A total of 11,000 km² glaciers have been mapped in this effort, but the total measured area exceeds 15,000
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avalanches have been reported in Iceland since then. Unaccounted deaths may be assumed to have
been several hundreds, especially during two gaps a total of 250 years in the written records before
1600. Since 1901 altogether 196 persons have been killed in avalanche and landslide accidents in
Iceland. Catastrophic avalanches in the villages Súðavík and Flateyri in 1995, which killed 34 people
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