in one way or another.
Links (above, left) give examples of such projects. See also specific web-sites of other projects.
About the institution
The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) is a public institution under the auspices of the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources. The role of the IMO is to contribute towards to public safety, the safeguarding of property
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Hazard- and risk assessment for natural hazards
in Iceland are an important part of IMO's role
25.10.2019
The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
was held the 13th of October as every year since 1989. The day was designated
by the United Nations
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recession as an opportunity to create a sustainable and desirable future."
His article on "The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital" published in Nature 1997 is the second most highly cited article in ecology and environment in the last decade:
"The services of ecological systems and the natural capital stocks that produce them are critical to the functioning of the Earth's life
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of
Meteorology
Seismology and volcanic activities
Glaciology
Hydrology
Risk assesment of natural hazards, e.g. floods and avalanches,
etc.
Athmosphere Water, snow, glaciers
Earth Ocean
Geophysical
processes
Natural Hazards - Topics
Severe weather
storms, heavy precipitation
lightning
Avalanches and land slide
Floodings
river floods, flash floods, ice jams, glacier outburst
Storm surge
Sea Ice
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scale
EAWS
Danger level
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Snowpack stability
Avalanche triggering probability
5
Very high
The snowpack is poorly bonded and largely unstable in general.
Numerous large-sized and often very large-sized natural avalanches can be expected, even in moderately steep terrain.
4
High
The snowpack is poorly bonded on most steep slopes.
Triggering
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on the
Shifts of climatic
zones from
cooler or wetter
to warmer or
drier
(a) 1971-2000 (b) 2010-39 A1B
observational data set
(0.25º grid) from Haylock
et al. (2008)
(b-d) Based on CMIP3
GCM runs for A1B
& the delta-change
method
(c) 2040-69 A1B (d) 2070-99 A1B
Jylhä et al. (2010)
Uncertainties in climate change schematically
Observed
climate
Future
climate Natural/media/loftslag/Case_B___Road_transport_operation_and_infrastructure_planning.pdf
activity in Iceland 2015-2016 and testing
of
near real time automatic relative locations
Gunnar B. Guðmundsson and the Natural Hazards monitoring
team
09:20 – 09:40 24/7 monitoring of natural hazards at the
Icelandic Meteorological Office
Kristín Jónsdóttir and the Natural Hazards monitoring team 09:40
– 10:00
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to snow avalanches and landslides and other natural catastrophies in Iceland:
Slys og tjón af völdum snjóflóða og skriðufalla (Sveitarstjórnarmál, 61, 6, 474−482, 2001, authors T. Jóhannesson and Th. Arnalds) (pdf 1.2 Mb)
Náttúruhamfarir á Íslandi (In: Orkuþing 2001. Orkumenning á Íslandi. Grunnur til stefnumótunar, María J. Gunnarsdóttir, ed., 238−246, Reykjavík, Samorka, 2001, author T
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