West Iceland, is a direct run off river. Fig. 4 shows the effect of low precipitation on such rivers. During a dry spell in late summer, water discharge was very low. In preceding years, it was also rather low except during the summer of 2005 (red
line). The black
line (2010) shows that hardly any rain fell on the drainage area last summer.
Location
A map which shows the location of various rivers
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