the no-access area around the eruption site by the Icelandic Civil Protection throughout the eruption.
Preliminary maps were produced considering a short meteorological data set (one month); and were only done for 50% and 90% likelihood of occurrence.
A more proper data set of runs was done using 10 years of meteorological data from the ECMWF and probabilistic hazard maps accounting
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the no-access area around the eruption site by the Icelandic Civil Protection throughout the eruption.
Preliminary maps were produced considering a short meteorological data set (one month); and were only done for 50% and 90% likelihood of occurrence.
A more proper data set of runs was done using 10 years of meteorological data from the ECMWF and probabilistic hazard maps accounting
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in a gully below a shelf in the middle of the mountainside at approximately 340 m a.s.l. It flowed down the gully and onto a road above a recently constructed catching dam which is a short distance above the uppermost houses in the village. The avalanche hit the dam along a more than 50 m distance and left rocks and branches that it picked up on its way on the damside. It was approximately 2 m short
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Jóhannesson) (pdf 0.5 Mb)
Accidents and economic damage due to snow avalanches and landslides in Iceland (Jökull, 50, 81−90, 2001, authors T. Jóhannesson and Th. Arnalds) (pdf 2.0 Mb)
A map on a selected front page shows recent observations of avalanches. For user access to avalanche and landslide data, an avalanche map viewer is available
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